different between equipage vs equip

English

Etymology

From Middle French equippage, from equipper.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.kw?.p?d?/

Noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
2. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
3. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 199:

     At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.

4. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Translations

Verb

equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• equipagie (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French équipage, from Middle French esquipage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?ki?pa?.??/
• Hyphenation: equi?pa?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

equipage f (plural equipages)

1. the crew, equipment and stock of a ship
2. a carriage with draught animals and tack
3. (obsolete) the equipment needed for travels [1612 - 19th c.]
   • 1612, G. A. Bredero & Reinier Telle, Het vierde deel vande tragedische of claechlijcke historien, fol. 153r.

Related terms

• equiperen

English

Etymology

From French équiper (“to supply, fit out”), originally said of a ship, Old French esquiper (“to embark”); of Germanic origin, most probably from Proto-Germanic *skip?n? (“to ship, sail, embark”); akin to Gothic ???????????????? (skip, “ship”). Compare with Old High German scif, German Schiff, Icelandic skip, Old English scip (“ship”), Old Norse skipja (“to fit out a ship”). See ship.

Meanings of its derivative "equipage" may have been influenced by Latin equus = "horse".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kw?p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• Hyphenation: equip

Verb

equip (third-person singular simple present equips, present participle equipping, simple past equipped, past participle equipped or (archaic) equipt)

1. (transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging)
   • 1921, Rafael Sabatini, In Destiny's Clutch

     it is no more than proper that you should equip us with a vessel in which to pursue the journey which you interrupted

   • 1916, "Indicator Tells Pursuing Police Speed of Automobile" in Popular Science Monthly/Volume 88

     A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, is equipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.

   • 1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

     Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.

2. (transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.

   • The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.

3. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
4. (transitive, gaming) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.
   • 2002, Prima Temp Authors, PlayStation 2: Hot Strategies for Cool Games (page 69)

     Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, or equip your sword and attack it at close range.

Synonyms

• (to supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task): apparel, dight, fit out, kit out
• (to dress up): don, dress, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• re-equip, reequip

Related terms

• equipment
• equipage

Translations

References

equip in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• pequi, pique, piqué

Catalan

Etymology

From French équipe.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??kip/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e?kip/

Noun

equip m (plural equips)

1. team

Related terms

• equipar

Further reading

• “equip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “equip” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “equip” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “equip” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.