aequor

• aecor

From aequus (“flat, horizontal”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.kʷor/, [ˈäe̯kʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.kwor/, [ˈɛːkwor]

aequor n (genitive aequoris); third declension

1. even surface
2. even surface of the sea in its quiet state; the calm, smooth sea; the sea level
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.67–68:

     Gēns inimīca mihī Tyrrhēnum nāvigat aequor,
     Īlium in Ītaliam portāns vīctōsque Penātēs.

     A race inimical to me is sailing the calm Tyrrhenian Sea,
     bringing Ilium to Italy, along with [their] conquered household-gods.

3. the sea (even when agitated by storms)
4. the plain

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• aequoreus

aequor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of aequō

• “aequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aequor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• quaerō