Rossinante

Rossinante is the name of the horse of Don Quichotte, in the novel Don Quichotte of Miguel de Cervantes there Saavedra. It is an emaciated and thin horse.

Rocín means horse of low-row , but also illiterate man and lout . To compare with the French ( roussin or pink ) and with the Portuguese ( Rossim ), but the real etymology is dubious. The Spanish word handle means " devant" or " avant" ; and as the narration at the beginning of the book stipulates it, when Don Quichotte seeks a name for her mounting, it chooses Rossinante for “to mean clearly that its mounting had been before a simple pink, before becoming the first of all the pinks of the world. ” .