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Latin
Etymology
aequus (“equal”) + aevum
Pronunciation
Adjective
aequaevus (feminine aequaeva, neuter aequaevum); first/second-declension adjective
- just as old, of equal age, equal-lived, coeval
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.560–562:
- “ Subiit cārī genitōris imāgō,
ut rēgem aequaevum crūdēlī volnere vīdī,
vītam exhālantem .”- “ The thought of my dear father came to mind, when I saw the king – just as old – with a cruel wound, exhaling his life....”
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “aequaevus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aequaevus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers