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- noun grammar The case conveying an equality with another noun, equivalent to "like" or "as" in English. This case form is used in some languages like
Inuktitut .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Liobagrus aequilabris is named after the equally long upper and lower jaws (from the Latin aequalis, meaning equal, and labrum, meaning lip).
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Sic brevi spatio novi veteresque coaluere, et virtus omnium aequalis facta.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Acci fuit, ut his consulibus xl. annos natus Ennius fuerit: cui si aequalis fuerit Livius, minor fuit aliquanto is, qui primus fabulam dedit, quam ei, qui multas docuerant ante hos consules, et Plautus et
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Quod quum statuerit, tum, ut quidque erit dicendum, ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra, sed erit rebus ipsis par et aequalis oratio.
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AT chorus aequalis Dryadum clamore supremos implerunt montis; flerunt Rhodopeiae arces altaque Pangaea et Rhesi Mauortia tellus atque Getae atque Hebrus et Actias Orithyia. ipse caua solans aegrum testudine amorem5 te, dulcis coniunx, te solo in litore secum, te ueniente die, te decedente canebat.
Orpheus and Eurydice Vergil 1912
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Mandatum quintum nos jubet honorem conservare, ac officia persolvere unicuique pro ratione ordinis ac relationis in quibus fuerit exhibenda, seu superior nobis fiet, sive inferior, sive denique aequalis.
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Data est autem omnibus in Ecclesia ministris una et aequalis potestas sive functio.
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Mandatum quintum nos jubet honorem conservare, ac officia persolvere unicuique pro ratione ordinis ac relationis in quibus fuerit exhibenda, seu superior nobis fiet, sive inferior, sive denique aequalis.
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Data est autem omnibus in Ecclesia ministris una et aequalis potestas sive functio.
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I should like to find some aequalis to make a companion for him.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge Benson, Arthur C. 1886
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