equitum

equitum is a Latin form of eques, meaning “horseman, rider; (pl.) cavalry; a knight, member of the equestrian order”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 835 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.15.2: Quo proelio sublati Helvetii, quod quingentis equitibus tantam multitudinem equitum propulerant, audacius subsistere non numquam et novissimo agmine proelio nostros lacessere coeperunt. Caesar …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 38.3: Equitum turmas frequenter recognouit, post longam intercapedinem reducto more trauectionis. sed neque detrahi quemqua …

All forms of eques (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.