Equitable means fair to everybody involved. An equitable share, an equitable solution, equitable treatment.
It is not the same as equal, and the difference is the whole point: an equitable share takes account of what each side needs or contributed. In English law there is a separate body of equitable rules built to soften the common law.
1adjectiveequitableFair to everybody involved.
“The inheritance was divided in an equitable way among the three children.”
equitable is a quality.
French equitable comes from equite, from Latin aequitas, fairness, from aequus, level.
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English, today
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From French équitable, from Old French -, from equité (“equity”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA