English
equipage
Equipage comes from Middle French equippage ‘equipment’, and goes back to equipper.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600equipper
- Middle French, derivedc. 1400–1600equippage‘equipment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1603equipage
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600equipper
- Middle French, derivedc. 1400–1600equippage‘equipment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1603equipage
Earliest quotation: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes […]: “Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a…”
The story
The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (‘horse’).
Every English word from Middle French equipper
Today it means
noun Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French equipper / equipage