“horse” in Latin

equus (general term, and the usual word in the more elevated prose style): caballus (for ordinary services; a hack): mannus (a Gallic horse or pony, kept for luxury; a palfrey, short, well-set, and fast-going): veredus (light horse, hunter or courier’s horse, not used for drawing): canterius (a gelding). A wild horse, equus ferus, equiferus (in a state of nature): a spirited horse, equus ferocitate exsultans. A horse rears, [Vid: REAR]: the horse reared and threw his rider, equus prioribus pedibus erectis excussit equitem (Liv., 8, 7): to fall over one’s horse’s neck, trans cervicem equi elabi (Liv., ib.): to wheel one’s horse round, circumagere equum (ib.): to teach a horse to amble, equorum cursum minutis passibus frangere (Quint., 9, 4, 13): to rub down a horse, equum manibus confricare or perfricare (both Veg.): to bring a horse into good condition again, equum ad corporis firmitatem revocare (Veg.): a horse gets too fat, equus ultra modum sagina provenit (Vegetious): to mount a horse, in equum ascendere: to alight from one’s horse, ex equo descendere (Prov.). One must not look a gift horse in the mouth, equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur (Hier., Ep., ad Ephes. prooem.). Saddle-horse, sellare jumentum.