domus equestris

From domus (“house”) + equestris, the feminine of equester (“of a horseman”). The name derives from the fact that these nicer apartments had windows or balconies facing both the street and an interior courtyard, and so straddled the building as a rider does a horse.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɔ.mʊs ɛˈkʷɛs.trɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɔː.mus eˈkʷɛs.t̪ris]

domus equestris f (genitive domūs equestris or domī equestris); irregular, variously declined, fourth declension, second declension

1. an apartment with windows facing both the street and an interior courtyard.

Fourth/second-declension noun with a third-declension adjective, with locative.

• domus