English
dupe
Dupe comes from French duper ‘to trick, fool, dupe’, and goes back to Latin upupa ‘hoopoe’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEupupa‘hoopoe’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEūppa
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400huppe
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600duppe
- Frenchc. 1600–presentduper‘to trick, fool, dupe’
- Englishearliest quotation 1813dupe
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEupupa‘hoopoe’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEūppa
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400huppe
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600duppe
- Frenchc. 1600–presentduper‘to trick, fool, dupe’
- Englishearliest quotation 1813dupe
Earliest quotation: 1813, Jane Austen, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton: “It would vex me, indeed, to see you again…”
Every English word from Latin upupa
Another origin of dupe
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplex‘twofold’next step skipped: Latin duplicō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplicātus‘doubled, duplicated’
- English1500–presentduplicate
- Englishtodaydupe
Today it means
noun A person who has been deceived.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin upupa / dupe