equivocation

Etymology

Attested from around 1380, from Middle English equivocacion, from Old French equivocation, from Medieval Latin aequivocātiō, from aequivocō, from Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”), from Latin aequus (“equal”) + vocō (“call”). It is a calque of Ancient Greek ὁμωνυμία (homōnumía).