aequabilitas Latin · revision 9651

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la aequus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ae̯.kʷaːˈbɪ.lɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [e.kʷaˈbiː.li.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aequābilitās''' ''f'' (genitive aequābilitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aequābilis|-tās|t1=equal, uniform]], from [[m|la|aequō|t=to make level]], from [[m|la|aequus|t=even, level]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant uniformity, evenness, equability, as in Cicero's ''aequābilitās in omnī vītā'' “consistency in the whole of life”; in grammar, analogy, correspondence, as in Varro; equity, fairness; and equality of status, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) English ''equability'' (1530s) is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it in grammar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of uniformity and fairness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''equability'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|uniformity|alt=Uniformity]], evenness, [[m|en|equability]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(grammar)'' [[m|en|analogy|alt=Analogy]], correspondence.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|equity|alt=Equity]], fairness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Equality of status.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inaequābilitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aequābilis]]

+ * [[aequābiliter]]

+ * [[aequālis]]

+ * [[aequālitās]]

+ * [[aequāliter]]

+ * [[aequāmentum]]

+ * [[aequātiō]]

+ * [[aequātus]]

+ * [[aequē]]

+ * [[aequitās]]

+ * [[aequus]]

+ * [[en|equability]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}