Etymograph

English

multiplex

Multiplex comes from Latin multiplex ‘having many folds’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmultiplex‘having many folds’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009multiplex

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmultiplex‘having many folds’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009multiplex

Earliest quotation: 2009, The American Psychiatric Publishing Text: “Supporting an additive model, simplex families […] have less…”

Today it means

adj Comprising several interleaved parts.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin multiplex / multiplex