Quirites
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of Quirites
< Latin Quirītēs, plural of Quirīs, associated, perhaps by folk etymology, with Cures, a Sabine town
Example Sentences
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The hill on which the Sabines settled took its name from their word for themselves, Quirites, the People with the Spears.
From The Childhood of Rome by Lamprey, Louise
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
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
Some say that the name Quirinus, which Romulus received, means Mars; others that it was because his people were called Quirites.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
Quirites, kwi-rī′tez, n.pl. the citizens of ancient Rome in their civil capacity.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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