The corpus record — Latin

quadruplico

quadruplico · v. a

to multiply by four

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Where it lives

Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

quā^drŭplĭco — Lewis & Short

quā^drŭplĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.quadruplex,

I to multiply by four, make fourfold, quadruplicate: rem suam, one's property, Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 4: numerum, Dig. 38, 10, 10.— Hence, adv.: quădrŭplĭcā-tō, four times as much, quadruply (postAug.), Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 76: emptis vineis, id. 14, 4, 5, § 51.

In the wild

quadruplicavit Plautus, Stichus 3.1
quadruplicato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.17.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.