quadruple
Meaningfourfold
Common meaning: four times as much
- quadrfour; four-sidedLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1501 · scan
- plto foldLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1387 · scan
‘four’ + ‘to fold’ → quadruple
Journey through time
- quadr — Latin quattuor; quadrus “four; four-sided” (path traced)
- pl — Latin plicō, plicāvī “to fold” (path traced)
Parts join in French as quadruple.
- Latinquattuor; quadrus + plicō, plicāvī‘four + to fold’
- Frenchquadruple
- Englishquadruple‘four times as much’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin quattuor; quadrus ‘four; four-sided’ + Latin plicō ‘to fold’.
Did you know (Latin plicare, "to…): our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry plicō, p. 1387 · dictionary scan
Did you know (Latin quattuor, four,…): our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry quattuor, p. 1501 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry SQUARE, p. 587 · dictionary scan
Roots
- plicō, plicāvī Latin “to fold”
- quattuor; quadrus Latin “four; four-sided”
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