Etymograph

English

sedecuple

Sedecuple comes from Latin sēdecuplus ‘sixteenfold’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēdecuplus1‘sixteenfold’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1744sedecuple1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English sedecuple
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1744, –9, Commercium Literarum: “If for duple we had ſubſtituted triple, quadruple, quintuple,…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēdecuplusWiktionary, English sedecuple‘sixteenfold’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1744sedecupleWiktionary, English sedecuple. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1744, –9, Commercium Literarum: “If for duple we had ſubſtituted triple, quadruple, quintuple,…”

first attested First attested in 1744–1749; from the Latin sēdecuplus (“sixteenfold”); compare decuple (as stated in Wiktionary’s etymology)

The story

First attested in 1744–1749; from the Latin sēdecuplus (‘sixteenfold’); compare decuple.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Every English word from Latin sēdecuplus

Today it means

adj Sixteen times as great or as numerous.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sedecuple”. 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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