aequalis

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Translingual

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Micrathyria aequalis.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin aequālis.

Adjective

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aequalis m or f (neuter aequale)

  1. (taxonomy) equal

English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin aequālis (equal). Doublet of equal and egal.

Noun

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aequalis

  1. (grammar) The case conveying an equality with another noun, equivalent to “like” or “as” in English. This case is used in some languages like Inuktitut.

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From aequus (equal, even) +‎ -ālis.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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aequālis (neuter aequāle, comparative aequālior, superlative aequālissimus, adverb aequāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. equal, like
    Synonyms: pār, compār, aequus, adaequātus
    Antonyms: dispār, inaequālis, impār, inīquus
  2. comparable, contemporary
  3. coeval, coexistent
  4. similar, resembling in size or form
    Synonym: similis
    Antonyms: dissimilis, absimilis, inaequālis
  5. uniform, equable, unvarying

Declension

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Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • aequalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aequalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aequalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be a contemporary of a person: aequalem esse alicuius
  1. ^ “eguale, uguale” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN