Herrenreiter
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of English gentleman rider, Herr + -en- + Reiter
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Herrenreiter m (strong, genitive Herrenreiters, plural Herrenreiter, feminine Herrenreiterin)
- (dated, equestrianism) gentleman rider
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 27; republished as Helen T. Lowe-Porter, transl., The Magic Mountain, 1927:
- „Ja,“ sagte Joachim, „da sieht es böse aus. Ein österreichischer Aristokrat, weißt du, eleganter Mann und ganz wie zum Herrenreiter geboren. Und nun steht es so mit ihm. Aber er geht noch herum.“
- “Yes,” said Joachim. “That's a bad case. An Austrian aristocrat, you know, very elegant. He's a born horseman—a gentleman rider. And now he's come to this. But he still gets about.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Herrenreiter [masculine, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- “Herrenreiter” in Duden online
- “Herrenreiter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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