%0 Journal Article %T Équivoquer en français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (les gram- mairiens et l’homonymie) %A Jakubczyk, Marcin %J Romanica Cracoviensia %V Volume 13 (2013) %R 10.4467/20843917RC.13.003.1388 %N Volume 13, Issie 1 %P 29-37 %K French grammars of seventeenth-century, equivocation, homonymy, history of the language %@ 1732-8705 %D 2013 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/equivoquer-en-francais-aux-xviie-et-xviiie-siecles-les-gram-mairiens-et-lhomonymie %X Use of the term equivocation in French seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (grammarians and homonymy) The phenomenon of homonymy, now located within the semantics, it was included in days of old, in accordance with the then current state of knowledge of the language, to the grammatical descriptions. Homonyms (including homophones and homographes) was determined in the seventeenth-century French grammars as mots équivoques, so equivocations (Polish former: ekwiwok, ekiwok). The article analyzed the lists of equivocations contained in grammars published in the seventeenth century in France and in the first two Polish-French grammars published in Poland at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.