FromFrenchéquiper(“tosupply,fit out”), originally said of aship,Old Frenchesquiper(“toembark”); ofGermanic origin, most probably fromOld Norseskipa(“to man (a ship)”), fromProto-Germanic*skipōną(“to ship, sail, embark”).
Compare withMiddle High Germanschipfen,Germanschiffern,Icelandicskipa,Old Englishscipian.Doublet ofship.
equip (third-person singular simple presentequips,present participleequipping,simple pastequipped,past participleequippedor(archaic)equipt)
- (transitive) Tosupply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
- 1698-1699,Edmund Ludlow,Memoirs
- Gave orders forequipping a considerable fleet.
1916, “Indicator Tells Pursuing Police Speed of Automobile”, inPopular Science Monthly/Volume 88:A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, isequipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.
2007 February 4, Randall Stross, “Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers”, inThe New York Times[1]:Some of those neighbors will also have Meraki boxes that serve as repeaters, relaying the signal still farther to more neighbors. The companyequips its boxes with software that maintains a “mesh network,” which dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or unplugged, and as environmental conditions that affect network performance fluctuate moment to moment.
2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, inThe Telegraph[2]:More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying andequipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.
- (transitive) Todress up; toarray; toclothe.
1711 July 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison;Richard Steeleet al.], “MONDAY, July 2, 1711”, inThe Spectator, number129; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC:The country are led astray in following the town, andequipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.- The spelling has been modernized.
- (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
I'm sorry, but I don't feelequipped to answer that kinda question yet.
1947 October 20, “Russian Catechism”, inTime:Already in the primary school work is conducted for the purpose ofequipping the pupils with those elements of general knowledge which are closely related to the military preparation of future warriors.
- (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, page69:Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, orequip your sword and attack it at close range.
to supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task
to prepare (someone) with a skill
gaming: to equip oneself with (an item)
Translations to be checked
equip (uncountable)
- (gaming, slang)Equipment (carried by a game character).
“equip”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromFrenchéquipe.
equip m (pluralequips)
- team
- “equip”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “equip”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2026
- “equip” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “equip” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
