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Is eques a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word eques is a Scrabble US word. The word eques is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is eques a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word eques is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

EQUES,

3-letter words (4 found)

SEE,SUE,SUQ,USE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EE,ES,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 9 words from eques according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of eques

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Definitions and meaning of eques

eques

Etymology

From Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”).

Noun

eques (plural equites)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.

Anagrams

  • -esque, squee

Latin

Etymology

From equus (“horse”) +‎ -es (“-faring”). Compare pedes, mīles for similar formations.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.kʷes/, [ˈɛkʷɛs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.kwes/, [ˈɛːkwes]

Noun

eques m (genitive equitis); third declension

  1. A horseman, cavalryman, rider
  2. A knight
  3. an equite, an eques, an equestrian (class)
  4. (Late Latin, chess) knight
  5. (in the plural) Equestrian order

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • equitulus (diminutive, New Latin, rare)
  • equitō

See also

References

  • “eques”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “eques”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • eques in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • eques in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Source: wiktionary.org