English
duplication
Duplication comes from Latin duplicō ‘to double, multiply by two, duplicate’, and goes back to duplex.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplex‘double, twofold’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplicō‘to double, multiply by two, duplicate’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEduplicātiō
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600duplication
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500duplicacioun
- Englishearliest quotation 1916duplication
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplex‘double, twofold’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEduplicō‘to double, multiply by two, duplicate’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEduplicātiō
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600duplication
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500duplicacioun
- Englishearliest quotation 1916duplication
Earliest quotation: 1916, Edgar Montgomery Cullen, The Decline of Personal Liberty in America: “Counting crimes as given in the index to the…”
Formed from duplicate + -ion
Linked words
through Latin duplex ‘double, twofold’
Today it means
noun The act of duplicating.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin duplex / duplication