equivocation

The story

1. Latin · derived fromaequus“equal”
2. Late Latin · derived fromaequivocus“ambiguous, equivocal”
3. Medieval Latin · derived fromaequivocātiō
4. Old French · derived fromequivocation
5. Middle English · inherited fromequivocacion
6. English todayequivocation

c. 1380, from Middle English equivocacion, from Old French equivocation, from Medieval Latin aequivocātiō, from aequivocō, from Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”), from Latin aequus (“equal”) + vocō (“call”); a calque of Ancient Greek ὁμωνυμία (homōnumía).

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