duplico Latin · revision 32500

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *du-o-h₁}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdʊ.plɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈduː.pli.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''duplicō''' (present infinitive duplicāre, perfect active duplicāvī, supine duplicātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|duplex|-ō|t1=double, twofold]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan notes that [[m|la|duplex]] is one of the compounds in which Latin replaced the old prefix *dwi- with du-, from [[m|la|duo|t=two]], which he traces to [[ine-pro|*du-o-h₁|t=two]].^(de Vaan 2008) Etymonline analyses the verb as "two" and [[m|la|plicō|t=to fold]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: something will double every theft.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to double in number, amount or duration, sometimes loosely of any large increase: Cicero speaks of doubling the number of days, and Caesar and Tacitus use it of numbers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to put two in the place of one, as when Cicero says a case is doubled.^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it of doubling up or bending: a spear driven through the shoulders doubles a man over with pain.^(OLD 2012) The poets usually make the first syllable short, but Varro and Virgil have it long.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it repeat, double.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of doubling a theft.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of doubling a number of days.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a man doubled over in pain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|duplicate]] comes from its participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To double up, bend, fold over.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|double]] in amount or duration; to increase, enlarge.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To put two in place of one, [[m|en|duplicate]]; to repeat.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[conduplicō]]

+ * [[duplicātiō]]

+ * [[duplicator]]

+ * [[reduplicō]]

+ * [[duplicātō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[duo]]

+ * [[duplex]]

+ * [[duplus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}