aequatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *aikʷos?

Old Latin aiquos

Latin aequus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin aequō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin aequātiō

From aequō (“make equal or level”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯ˈkʷaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈkʷat.t͡si.o]

Noun

aequātiō f (genitive aequātiōnis); third declension

1. an equalization, equal distribution
2. (mathematics) equation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aequātiō	aequātiōnēs
genitive	aequātiōnis	aequātiōnum
dative	aequātiōnī	aequātiōnibus
accusative	aequātiōnem	aequātiōnēs
ablative	aequātiōne	aequātiōnibus
vocative	aequātiō	aequātiōnēs

Related terms

• aequābilis
• aequābilitās
• aequālis
• aequālitās
• aequitās
• aequō
• aequum
• aequus

Descendants

• Catalan: equació
• English: equation
• French: équation
• → Galician: ecuación
• Italian: equazione
• → Portuguese: equação
• Romanian: ecuație
• Spanish: ecuación

References

• “aequatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aequatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aequatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “aequatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.