Equine
/ˈiː.kwaɪn/noun
Relating to horses or members of the horse family.
Did you know?Equine comes from Latin equinus, from equus meaning “horse,” and that same Indo-European root also lives on in words like equestrian, so the horse has been encoded into language for millennia.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
h₁éḱwos
“horse”
Latin
Latin
equus
“horse”
Late Latin
Latin
equinus
“of or relating to a horse”
Middle French
Old French
equin
“equine; horse-like”
Modern English
English
equine
“relating to horses”
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