Etymology

equipage

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Today it means: Equipment or supplies, especially military ones. Full definition →

Middle French equippage ← Latin equus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromequus“horse”
  2. Middle French · derived fromequippage
  3. English todayequipage

From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).

Words from the same roots

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