aequalis

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

• sea quail

Latin

Etymology

From aequus (“equal, even”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈkʷaː.lis/, [äe̯ˈkʷäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈkwa.lis/, [eˈkwäːlis]

Adjective

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

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	aequālis	aequāle		aequālēs	aequālia
Genitive	aequālis			aequālium
Dative	aequālī			aequālibus
Accusative	aequālem	aequāle		aequālēs aequālīs	aequālia
Ablative	aequālī			aequālibus
Vocative	aequālis	aequāle		aequālēs	aequālia

Synonyms

• aequābiliter

Derived terms

• aequāliter
• aequālitās

 

Related terms

• aequiter
• aequitās
• aequum
• aequus
• aequābilis
• aequābilitās
• aequātiō
• aequātus
• aequē
• aequō

 

Descendants

• Asturian: igual
• Extremaduran: igual
• Franco-Provençal: égalle
• Friulian: avuâl, vualîf
• Galician: igual
• Italian: uguale, eguale; equale
• Sardinian: aguale, auguale, gali, oguale, uguale
• Sicilian: avali, aguali, uguali
• Neapolitan: eguale, uguale
• → Middle English: equal, equale
  • English: equal
  • Scots: aiqual
• Leonese: igual, egual
• Ligurian: egoal
• Lombard: uguale
• Maltese: ugwal
• Mirandese: eigual
• Norman: égal
• Navarro-Aragonese: ygual, egual, igual
  • → Aragonese: igual
• Old Occitan: egal
  • Catalan: igual, egal, egual
  • Occitan: egal
• Old French: igal, egal, esgal, ivel
  • French: égal
    • → Danish: egal
    • → Dutch: egaal
    • → German: egal
    • → Romanian: egal
    • → Serbo-Croatian: egal
  • → Middle English: egal, egall, egalle
    • English: egal (obsolete)
• Piedmontese: ugual
• Portuguese: igual
• Romansch: guliv, guleiv, gualiv
• Spanish: igual
• Venetian: guałivo, gałivo
• Walloon: ewal

References

• “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