Etymograph

English

equiparation

Equiparation comes from Medieval Latin aequiparātiō, and goes back to Latin aequiparō ‘put on a level with, compare’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaequiparō‘put on a level with, compare’
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500aequiparātiō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1965equiparation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaequiparō‘put on a level with, compare’
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500aequiparātiō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1965equiparation

Earliest quotation: 1965, Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theolog: “Lucas de Penna, by his quid pro quo method,…”

A compound of aequus ‘equal’ + parō ‘place’

Proto-Italic *aikʷos

Old Latin aiquos

Latin aequus ‘equal’

Every English word from Latin aequiparō

Today it means

noun The transfer or imputation of attributes from one object or concept to another; the drawing of an equivalence between them.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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