equine

Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“of or pertaining to horses”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/, /ˈiːˌkwaɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/, /ˈiˌkwaɪn/

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equine (comparative more equine, superlative most equine)

1. Of or relating to a horse or horses.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     He who believes that each equine species was independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with a tendency to vary, both under nature and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus.

   • 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Nantlle Railway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 51:

     Four years after the publication of the Modernisation Report, and two years after the very first 'Pilot Scheme' diesels were introduced, BR finally said goodbye to a form of traction even older than the steam locomotive. This was the horse... and the line that used equine power was older than the Liverpool & Manchester [Railway].

   • 2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The equine escapees caused chaos bolting through the capital, colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians.

2. Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus.

• hippo-
• horsey, horsy
• horsely (rare)
• horsen (rare)

equine (plural equines)

1. Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus.

• equid

equine f

1. feminine plural of equino

equīne

1. vocative masculine singular of equīnus