equivoque

See also: equivoqué and équivoque

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aequus (“equal”) + vocō (“call”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkwɪvəʊk/

Adjective

equivoque (comparative more equivoque, superlative most equivoque)

1. (obsolete) Equivocal.

Noun

equivoque (plural equivoques)

1. A play on words, a pun.
2. Ambiguity or double meaning.
   • 1942: the black wisps of women bargaining behind those veils might turn out to be the ballet and coalesce in some dance gaily admitting their equivoque of concealing and proclaiming their sex. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 648)

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Spanish

Verb

equivoque

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of equivocar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of equivocar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of equivocar.