hetaerice

Latin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek (ῐ̔́ππος) ἑταιρῐκή ((hĭ́ppos) hetairĭkḗ, “(horse) guards”), from ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “comrade, companion”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /heˈtae̯.ri.keː/, [hɛˈt̪äe̯rɪkeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈte.ri.t͡ʃe/, [eˈt̪ɛːrit͡ʃe]

Noun

hetaericē f (genitive hetaericēs); first declension

1. body of horse guards in the Macedonian army
   • c. 110 BCE – c. 25 BCE, Cornelius Nepos, On the Eminent Commanders XVIII. Eumenes 1.6:

     novissimo tempore praefuit etiam alterae equitum alae, quae hetaerice appellabatur.

     In the very recent time, he also commanded another cavalry wing called the hetaerice.

Inflection

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	hetaericē	hetaericae
genitive	hetaericēs	hetaericārum
dative	hetaericae	hetaericīs
accusative	hetaericēn	hetaericās
ablative	hetaericē	hetaericīs
vocative	hetaericē	hetaericae

Related terms

• hetaeria

References

• “hetaerice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press