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語源

From Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”), from Latin aequus (“equal”) + vocō (“call”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkwɪvəʊk/

形容詞

equivoque (comparative more equivoque, superlative most equivoque)

1. (obsolete) Equivocal.

名詞

equivoque (複数形 equivoques)

1. (obsolete) A homonym.
2. A play on words, a pun.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 53, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:

     [H]e sported in many other æquivoques of the same nature; and at dinner told the physician, that he was like the root of the tongue, as being cursedly down in the mouth.