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Where does “tripler” come from?

tripler (French) comes from French triple, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus, from Proto-Italic *triplos.

tripler (French): to triple

Definitions

  1. to triple

Ancestry of “tripler”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtripletriple; thirty-second note; inflection of...
2Old Frenchtrebletreble; triple
3Latintriplusthreefold, triple
4Proto-Italic*triplos—
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