Where does “quadruplicans” come from?
quadruplicans (Latin) comes from Latin quadruplico, from Latin quadruplex, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus, from Proto-Indo-European kʷeturtos, from Proto-Indo-European kʷetwóres — and.
Ancestry of “quadruplicans”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | quadruplico | I quadruple, multiply by four, make fourfold |
| 2 | Latin | quadruplex | fourfold, quadruple; a fourfold amount |
| 3 | Latin | quattŭor | — |
| 4 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 5 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 6 | Latin | quārtus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |