equivocado in Spanish: wrong; mistaken (adjective)

/ekiβoˈkaðo/

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Translation

wrong; mistaken

Word origin

The past participle of equivocar ('to mistake'), from Late Latin aequivocus ('of equal voice, ambiguous'), from aequus ('equal') plus vox ('voice'). The same root gives English equivocal and vocal.

Origin: Latin
Root: aequivocus
English cognates: equivocal, vocal, equal

Grammar

Feminineequivocada

Masc pluralequivocados

Fem pluralequivocadas

Examples

You are wrong about what happened.

We took the wrong train.

He gave me the wrong number.

seguidas.

She rang the wrong number three times in a row.

I was mistaken in thinking it would be easy.

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This word is part of lesson 18.