aequalis

Learned borrowing from Latin aequālis (“equal”). Doublet of equal and egal.

aequalis

1. (grammar) The case conveying an equality with another noun, equivalent to “like” or “as” in English. This case is used in some languages like Inuktitut.

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From aequus (“equal, even”) +‎ -ālis.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈkʷaː.lis/, [äe̯ˈkʷäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈkwa.lis/, [eˈkwäːlis]

aequālis (neuter aequāle, comparative aequālior, superlative aequālissimus, adverb aequāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. equal, like

   Synonyms: pār, compār, aequus, adaequātus

   Antonyms: dispār, inaequālis, impār, inīquus

2. comparable, contemporary
3. coeval, coexistent
4. similar, resembling in size or form

   Synonym: similis

   Antonyms: dissimilis, absimilis, inaequālis

5. uniform, equable, unvarying

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• aequābiliter

• “aequalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aequalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aequalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a contemporary of a person: aequalem esse alicuius