English
deduplicate
Deduplicate comes from Latin duplicātus ‘doubled, duplicated’, and goes back to duplex ‘twofold’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplex‘twofold’next step skipped: Latin duplicō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplicātus‘doubled, duplicated’
- English1500–presentduplicate
- Englishtodaydeduplicate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplex‘twofold’next step skipped: Latin duplicō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplicātus‘doubled, duplicated’
- English1500–presentduplicate
- Englishtodaydeduplicate
Linked words
through Latin duplex ‘twofold’
through English duplicate
Today it means
verb To eliminate redundant duplicate data.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin duplex / deduplicate