English
adequate
Adequate comes from Latin adaequātus ‘equal’, and goes back to adaequō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadaequō‘to make equal to’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadaequātus‘equal’perfect passive participle of adaequō
- Englishearliest quotation 1622adequate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadaequō‘to make equal to’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadaequātus‘equal’perfect passive participle of adaequō
- Englishearliest quotation 1622adequate
Earliest quotation: 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix; clearing foure truthes: “Let me giue yet one instance more, of a…”.
A compound of ad- + aequus ‘equal’ + aequō ‘to equalize, make equal to something else,…’ + adaequō ‘to make equal to, equalize, level with’
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Old Latin aiquos
Latin aequus ‘equal’
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Old Latin aiquos
Latin aequus ‘equal’
Latin aequō ‘to equalize, make equal to something else, equate’
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Old Latin aiquos
Latin aequus ‘equal’
Latin aequō ‘to equalize, make equal to something else, equate’
Latin adaequō ‘to make equal to, equalize, level with’
Every English word from Latin adaequō
Today it means
adj Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin adaequō / adequate