aequilibrium

== Latin == === Etymology === From aequus (“level, even”) + lībra (“level”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ae̯.kʷɪˈliː.bri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.kʷiˈliː.bri.um] === Noun === aequilībrium n (genitive aequilībriī or aequilībrī); second declension A level or horizontal position, equilibrium. (figuratively) A perfect equality, reciprocity. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== aequilībrātus aequilībris aequilībritās ==== Descendants ==== === References === “aequilibrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aequilibrium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.