duplicate

English

Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁
Etymology tree
Latin duplex
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin duplicātusbor.
English duplicate

    Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō, see -ate.

    Pronunciation

    Noun, adjective

    Verb

    Adjective

    duplicate (not comparable)

    1. Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.
      This is a duplicate entry.
    2. (games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.
      duplicate whist
      duplicate Scrabble

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    Verb

    duplicate (third-person singular simple present duplicates, present participle duplicating, simple past and past participle duplicated)

    1. (transitive) To make a copy of.
      If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
      Can you duplicate this kind of key?
    2. (transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.
      You don't need to duplicate my efforts.
    3. (transitive) To produce something equal to.
      He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.

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    Noun

    duplicate (countable and uncountable, plural duplicates)

    1. One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
      This is a duplicate, but a very good replica.
      • July 20, 1678, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer
        I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
    2. (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original[1]
    3. A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
      Synonym: (archaic slang) tombstone
      • 1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Vol. II, Chapter VI, p. 207:
        "Sir, I hope you will excuse what I am going to say; but having observed that you frequently pledge similar goods to these at our shop, which are afterwards taken out by other persons, I take for granted you are in the habit of selling the duplicates; […]"
    4. (uncountable, bridge) The game of duplicate bridge.
      • 1999, Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table, page 6:
        The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge and duplicate; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships […]
    5. (uncountable, Scrabble) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
    6. (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
      • 2013, Aljos Farjon, Denis Filer, An Atlas of the World's Conifers: An Analysis of their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status, Koninklijke Brill, →ISBN, page 3:
        Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens as duplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database.

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    References

    1. ^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851), “DUPLICATE”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.

    Italian

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    duplicate

    1. inflection of duplicare:
      1. second-person plural present indicative
      2. second-person plural imperative

    Etymology 2

    Participle

    duplicate f pl

    1. feminine plural of duplicato

    Latin

    Verb

    duplicāte

    1. second-person plural present active imperative of duplicō

    Spanish

    Verb

    duplicate

    1. second-person singular voseo imperative of duplicar combined with te
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