clibanarius

Latin

Etymology

According to Frithiof Rundgren (1957), from Iranian *grīwbānar, from Middle Iranian *grīwbānwar, from Old Iranian *grīva-pāna-bara (“neck-guard wearer”). Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠grīwbān⁠/, “neck-guard”) is attested in Vendidad 14.9.[1]

See also clībanus and κρίβανος (kríbanos).

Noun

clībanārĭus m

  1. a type of heavily armored cavalryman

References
  1. A. Sh. Shahbazi, “ARMY i. Pre-Islamic Iran,” Encyclopædia Iranica, II/5, pp. 489-499, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/army-i (accessed on 30 December 2012).

Further reading

“clibanarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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