Etymology

equivariant

E1Q10U1I1V4A1R1I1A1N1T1

Today it means: Not affected by a specified group action. Full definition →

English variant ← Latin aequi- ← Old Latin aiquos
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Italic*aikʷos?
  2. Old Latinaiquos
  3. Latinaequus
  4. Latinaequi-
  5. Englishequi-
  6. Englishvariant
  7. English todayequivariant

From equi- + variant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.