duplus

Latin

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    Cardinal: duo
    Ordinal: secundus, alter
    Adverbial: bis
    Proportional: duplus
    Multiplier: duplex, alterplex, biplex
    Distributive: bīnus
    Collective: bīniō
    Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Italic *duplos. By surface analysis, duo +‎ -plus.[1] Cf. Ancient Greek διπλόος (diplóos, “double”), from δι- (di-), from δύο (dúo, “two”), + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), and Proto-Germanic *twīflaz (“doubt”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    duplus (feminine dupla, neuter duplum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. double (twice as much, or as big)

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Italo-Dalmatian:
      • Italian: doppio
        • → Sardinian: dopiu
        • → Sicilian: doppiu
      • Venetan: dopio, dupio
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Ligurian: doggio
      • Lombard: dopi
      • Piedmontese: dobi
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Catalan: doble
      • Franco-Provençal: doblo
      • Occitan: doble
      • Old French: doble (see there for further descendants)
    • Ibero-Romance: (terms with 'e' endings may be from duplex)

    Borrowings:

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “-plus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 475: “Derivatives > line 1 > duplus”

    Further reading

    • “duplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “duplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “duplus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.