Quirites

American  

[kwi-rahy-teez, -ree-] / kwɪˈraɪ tiz, -ˈri- /

plural noun

1. the citizens of ancient Rome considered in their civil capacity.

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Quirites British  

/ kwɪˈraɪtiːz /

plural noun

1. the citizens of ancient Rome

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Etymology

Origin of Quirites

< Latin Quirītēs, plural of Quirīs, associated, perhaps by folk etymology, with Cures, a Sabine town

Example Sentences

Thus Quirinus would be an oak-god, and Quirites oak-spearmen.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

"It is according to law," growled the Quirites.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

The city being thus doubled, that some compliment might be paid to the Sabines, they were called Quirites, from Cures.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

"May this be good, and of good omen, happy, and fortunate to the Roman people, the Quirites; which now I lay before you, Fathers, and Conscript Senators."

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William

"Etenim, Quirites, exiguum nobis vitæ curriculum natura circumscripsit, immensum gloriæ."

From Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the Alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover by Evarts, William Maxwell