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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inflected form of aequus.
Adjective
aequum
- inflection of aequus:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- masculine accusative singular
Etymology 2
Substantive use of aequus (“level, even, equal”).
Noun
aequum n (genitive aequī); second declension
- what is right or fair
- level ground
- equal footing
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “aequum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aequum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have an appreciative audience: populum facilem, aequum habere
- to judge some one equitably: aequum iudicem se alicui praebere
- (ambiguous) to endure a thing with (the greatest) sang-froid: aequo (aequissimo) animo ferre aliquid
- (ambiguous) justly and equitably: ex aequo et bono (Caecin. 23. 65)
- (ambiguous) to live with some one on an equal footing: aequo iure vivere cum aliquo
- (ambiguous) in a favourable position: idoneo, aequo, suo (opp. iniquo) loco
- “aequum”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press