Etymograph

English

quadruplicate

Quadruplicate comes from Latin quadruplicatus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquadruplicatus1
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1886quadruplicate1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English quadruplicate
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1886, Rudyard Kipling: “Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquadruplicatusWiktionary, English quadruplicate
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1886quadruplicateWiktionary, English quadruplicate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1886, Rudyard Kipling: “Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.”

Every English word from Latin quadruplicatus

Today it means

adj having four parts

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “quadruplicate”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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