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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la multus, la plicō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmʊɫ.tɪ.pɫɛks]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmul.ti.pleks]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''multiplex''' (genitive multiplicis, adverb multipliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[multus]] “much, many” and [[-plex]] “-fold”, from the root of [[plicō]] “to fold”, as in [[duplex]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) Lucretius scans it ⟨multīplex⟩.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of many things at once.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant having many folds or turns, as Cicero's winding bowels and Ovid's labyrinth, and in Varro having many layers.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Lucretius it meant many times as great, and in Plautus many at once, numerous.^(OLD 2012) From the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' it meant made of many parts, complex, and in Cicero varied, manifold, and of persons versatile or changeable.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant manifold, many, many times more.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for having many layers.^(DMLBS) [[en|multiplex]] came in the 1550s, “manifold”.^(Etymonline) Late Latin ''multiplus'', from the same elements, gave [[en|multiple]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of many things at once.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of many layers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the manifold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1550s – English ''multiplex'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Winding.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Of many layers.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Many times as great.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Numerous, many together.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Complex, compound.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Varied, manifold; versatile; changeable.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[multiplicitas]]
+ * [[permultiplex]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[multus]]
+ * [[multiplicō]]
+ * [[duplex]]
+ * [[en|multiplex]]
+ * [[en|multiply]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}