English
replicate
Replicate comes from Latin replicātus ‘bent back, unrolled, reflected’, and goes back to replicāre.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEreplicāre‘to fold or bend back’next step skipped: Latin replicō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEreplicātus‘bent back, unrolled, reflected’past participle of replicāre
- Englishearliest quotation 2014replicate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEreplicāre‘to fold or bend back’next step skipped: Latin replicō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEreplicātus‘bent back, unrolled, reflected’past participle of replicāre
- Englishearliest quotation 2014replicate
Earliest quotation: 2014, Magician’s brain: “[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours…”
A compound of re ‘back’ + plicāre ‘to fold’
Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to plait, to weave’
Latin plicō ‘to fold’
Every English word from Latin replicāre
Today it means
verb To make a copy (replica) of.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin replicāre / replicate