Where does “quadruple” come from?

Quadruple comes from Latin quadruplus, formed from Latin quattuor (four) and Latin caput (head), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kauput-.

quadruple (English): Being four times as long, as big or as many of...

Definitions

  1. Being four times as long, as big or as many of...

Ancestry of “quadruple”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinquadruplusfourfold, quadruple
2Latinquattŭorfour; 4
3Portuguesequartoordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;...
4Old Portuguesequartoquarter
5Latinquārtusfourth
6Proto-Indo-Europeankʷeturtos—
7Proto-Indo-Europeankʷetwóresfour
8Proto-Indo-Europeankʷe-and

Words derived from “quadruple”

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