English
equipondious
Equipondious comes from Latin aequipondium ‘an equal weight’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaequipondium‘an equal weight’
- Englishearliest quotation 1665equipondious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaequipondium‘an equal weight’
- Englishearliest quotation 1665equipondious
Earliest quotation: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Confest Ignorance: “And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of…”
A compound of aequus ‘equal’ + pondus ‘weight’
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Old Latin aiquos
Latin aequus ‘equal’
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-os
Proto-Italic *pondos
Latin pondus ‘weight’
Every English word from Latin aequipondium
Today it means
adj Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin aequipondium / equipondious