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Latin
Etymology
From aequus + pondus + -ium.
Noun
aequipondium n (genitive aequipondiī or aequipondī); second declension
- counterpoise, counterweight
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “aequipondium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aequipondium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aequipondium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aequipondium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin