destrer
Catalan
Etymology
From destre + -er, because a page would lead it using his right hand when the knight was no longer mounted.
Further reading
- “destrer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “destrer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- destrere, dextrer
Etymology
Old French destrier, from Latin dextrārius, from dexter (“right-hand”) (where the squire led his master's horse).
Noun
destrer (plural destrers)
- warhorse, destrier
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- By him baiteth his dextrer.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- “destrer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French
Noun
destrer oblique singular, m (oblique plural destrers, nominative singular destrers, nominative plural destrer)
- a warhorse
- c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:
- Li quens Rollant est muntet el destrer.
- The count Roland mounted the warhorse.
Descendants
- → English: destrier
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