aequus
aequ--us Vorlage:lat. ‘gleich’
From earlier aiquos (SCdB), for Proto-Italic *aikʷos or *aikwos, of unknown origin.[1][2] Cf. however the Italic tribe Aequī, Aequīcolī (+ colere), and the placenames Aequum Tūticum (Samnium Hirpinum), Aequum Faliscum and Aequī Faliscī (Etruria), Superaequum (Samnium Paelignum), in some of which the noun aequum (“plain”), in others perhaps the adjective "razed" can be seen.[3][4] Probably not related to Sanskrit ऐक्य (aikya, “concord, identity, sameness”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈae̯.kʷus/, [ˈäe̯kʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.kwus/, [ˈɛːkwus]
Adjective
aequus (feminine aequa, neuter aequum, comparative aequior, superlative aequissimus, adverb aequē or aequiter); first/second-declension adjective
- equal [ synonyms, antonyms ▲][ quotations ▼]
- Synonyms: aequālis, adaequātus, pār, compār
- Antonyms: dispār, inaequālis, impār, inīquus
- level, even, flat, horizontal [ synonym, antonyms ▲]
- calm
- fair, impartial
- just
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | aequus | aequa | aequum | aequī | aequae | aequa | |
| Genitive | aequī | aequae | aequī | aequōrum | aequārum | aequōrum | |
| Dative | aequō | aequō | aequīs | ||||
| Accusative | aequum | aequam | aequum | aequōs | aequās | aequa | |
| Ablative | aequō | aequā | aequō | aequīs | |||
| Vocative | aeque | aequa | aequum | aequī | aequae | aequa | |