esquire

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈskwaɪə/    美 /ˈɛskwaɪɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lawyer. US,usually
  2. The lower of the halves into which a square is divided diagonally, a single gyron, but potentially larger (extending across the shield) or smaller (for example, on Mortimer's arms). rare
    — Thre pallets between ij Esquires bast dexter and sinister of the second.
  3. A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
    — I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the king's justices of the peace.
  4. An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
  5. A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
  6. A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight archaic
  7. A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants. obsolete
    — The office of the esquire consisted of several departments; the esquire for the body, the esquire of the chamber, the esquire of the stable, and the carving esquire; the latter stood in the hall at dinner, carved the different dishes, and distributed them to the guests.
动词 v.
  1. To attend, wait on, escort. obsolete,transitive

词形变化

esquires plural esquires present,singular,third-person esquiring participle,present esquired participle,past esquired past esquires plural

词汇关系

衍生词
esquireship esquiress

词源

词源 1
From Middle English esquier, from Old French escuyer, escuier, properly, a shield-bearer (compare modern French écuyer (“shield-bearer, armor-bearer, squire of a knight, esquire, equerry, rider, horseman”)), from Late Latin scūtārius (“shieldmaker, shield-bearer”), from Latin scūtum (“shield”); probably akin to English hide (“to cover”). The term squire is the result of apheresis. Compare equerry, escutcheon.
词源 2
Old French esquiere, esquierre, esquarre (“a square”) (whence modern French équerre), perhaps via a form like based esquire from bas d'esquire ("bottom of a square"), whence attested forms base (e)squire, e(s)quire bast.
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