"equity (fairness)" in seven languages
Meaningequity (fairness)
Spanish
equidad
/ekiˈdad/
fem.learned
French
équité
/ekite/
fem.learned
Italian
equità
/ekwiˈta/
fem.learned
Portuguese
equidade
/ekiˈdadʒi/
fem.learned
Romanian
echitate
/ekiˈtate/
fem.learned
Catalan
equitat
/əkiˈtat/
fem.learned
English
equity
/ˈɛkwɪti/
from Latin/French · Old French equité, Latin AEQUITĀTEM
English → Italianequity (fairness)equitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
AEQUITĀTEM‘evenness, fairness (AEQUUS 'level, equal')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Only fairness is shared: equity in the financial sense is patrimonio or capital in Spanish, capitaux propres in French, patrimonio netto in Italian. Spanish and French lost the w of qu; Italian keeps it.
English relatives: equal, equation, equitable
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- esLa ley debe aplicarse con equidad.
- frLa loi doit être appliquée avec équité.
- itLa legge va applicata con equità.
- ptA lei deve ser aplicada com equidade.
- roLegea trebuie aplicată cu echitate.
- caLa llei s'ha d'aplicar amb equitat.
- enThe law must be applied with equity.