Pronounced: EE-kuh-tone (alt: EK-uh-tone), noun
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Yesterday’s word
The word equipollent means “equal in power, force, effect, etc”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1400s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Old French word equipolent, which came from the Latin word aequipollent (of equal value), which is made up of aequus (equal) and pollent (able), which is the present participle of the verb pollere (to be strong).
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