écuyer
French
noun
Definitions
- (historical) squire, equerry
- rider, horseman
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French escuyer inherited from Old French escuier inherited from Latin scūtārius (shield-bearer), scūtum (shield, a shield).
Origin
Latin
scūtum
Gloss
shield, a shield
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
盾
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Scutum English
- alloscutum English
- scutum English
- scutarius Latin
- scūtum Latin
- scūtārius Latin
- Scudo Italian
- scuderia Italian
- scudiero Italian
- scudo Italian
- scutaire French
- escudero Spanish, Castilian
- *skei- Proto-Indo-European
- *skewH- Proto-Indo-European
- esquire Middle English
- squier Middle English
- escuier Old French
- escut Old French
- scut Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- scutar Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- scutier Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- êtchuyer Norman
- shqyt Albanian
- escuyer Middle French
- escudeiro Old Portuguese
- escudo Old Portuguese
- escudu Asturian
- scût Friulian
- escudier Old Occitan
- escut Old Occitan
- escudo Old Spanish