equine

See also: équine

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“of or pertaining to horses”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/, /ˈiːˌkwaɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/, /ˈiˌkwaɪn/

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Adjective

equine (comparative more equine, superlative most equine)

1. Of or relating to a horse or horses.
   • 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Nantlle Railway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 51:

     Four years after the publication of the Modernisation Report, and two years after the very first 'Pilot Scheme' diesels were introduced, BR finally said goodbye to a form of traction even older than the steam locomotive. This was the horse... and the line that used equine power was older than the Liverpool & Manchester [Railway].

   • 2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The equine escapees caused chaos bolting through the capital, colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians.

2. Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus.

Synonyms

• hippo-
• horsey, horsy
• horsely (rare)
• horsen (rare)

Derived terms

• eastern equine encephalitis
• equine rhabdomyelosis
• equine therapy
• equine variola
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis
• Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis

 

Translations

of or relating to a horse or horses

• Arabic: فَرَسِيّ (farasiyy), خَيْلِيّ (ḵayliyy)
• Belarusian: ко́нскі (kónski)
• Bulgarian: ко́нски (kónski)
• Catalan: equí
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬的／马的 (zh) (mǎ de)

• Czech: koňský (cs)
• Esperanto: ĉevala, (taxonomic subfamily) ekvena, (taxonomic family) ekveda
• Finnish: hevos-
• French: chevalin (fr), équin (fr), hippique (fr)
• German: Pferde- (de)
• Ido: kavalala (io)
• Italian: equino (it) m
• Japanese: ウマの (ja) (uma no)
• Korean: 말의 (ko) (mar-ui)
• Latin: equīnus
• Macedonian: коњски (konjski)
• Persian: اسبی (fa) (asbi), اسپی (aspi)
• Polish: koński (pl)
• Portuguese: equino (pt)
• Romanian: cabalin (ro)
• Russian: лошади́ный (ru) (lošadínyj), ко́нский (ru) (kónskij), ко́нный (ru) (kónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏њски

  Roman: kȍnjski (sh)

• Slovak: konský (sk)
• Slovene: konjski
• Spanish: equino (es)
• Ukrainian: кі́нський (kínsʹkyj), коня́чий (konjáčyj)

Noun

equine (plural equines)

1. Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus.

Translations

Any horse-like animal

• Esperanto: (taxonomic subfamily) ekveno, (taxonomic family) ekvedo (eo)
• Finnish: hevoseläin
• Portuguese: equino (pt) m
• Romanian: cabalină (ro) f

See also

• equid

Italian

Adjective

equine f

1. feminine plural of equino

Latin

Adjective

equīne

1. vocative masculine singular of equīnus