multiplico Latin · revision 34045

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la multiplex}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''multiplicō''' (present infinitive multiplicāre, perfect active multiplicāvī, supine multiplicātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|multiplex|-ō|t1=manifold]], as Priscian already saw.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary analyses it as [[m|la|multus|t=much]] with [[m|la|plicō|t=to fold]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero writes to his brother that they may come away with their glory multiplied.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to increase in number, quantity or extent, to multiply: Caesar has debt multiplied, a letter of Plancus forces and auxiliaries increased, and Ovid rivers swollen by gathered waters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of holding high offices many times over, and Curtius of a sound multiplied by echo in the woods.^(OLD 2012) In mathematics it is to multiply: Vitruvius reckons that a side of 14 feet gives 196 square feet.^(OLD 2012) Late texts such as the Itala, the Vulgate psalms and Martianus Capella have shortened perfect forms like ''multiplicāstī''.^(TLL) Church Latin also uses it of enriching.^(Stelten 1995) English ''multiply'' (mid-12th century) came through Old French ''multiplier''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of multiplied glory.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of debt.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of arithmetical multiplication.^(OLD 2012)

+ * mid-12th century – English ''multiply''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|increase]], augment, [[m|en|multiply]]; to hold or do many times over; to multiply a sound by echo.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(mathematics)'' To multiply.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To enrich.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[multiplicābilis]]

+ * [[multiplicātiō]]

+ * [[multiplicātīvus]]

+ * [[multiplicātor]]

+ * [[multiplicus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[multiplex]]

+ * [[en|multiply]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}