quadruplex
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”).
Adjective edit
quadruplex (not comparable)
- Having four components.
- Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
- Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.
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Noun edit
quadruplex (countable and uncountable, plural quadruplexes)
- (countable) A quadruplex system.
- 1905 August 12, Electrical World and Engineer, volume XLVI, number 7, New York, N.Y., page 256, column 1:
- The Western Union office is equipped with four quadruplexes, three duplexes and eleven single loops, besides special private loops in the Japanese and Russian suites, where direct communication will be maintained with the Atlantic cables at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland via Canso, and also with the Western Union offices in New York, whence the Japanese diplomatic matter will be sent via land lines to San Francisco over a direct circuit.
- (uncountable) Clipping of quadruplex videotape, an early type of videotape with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.
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Verb edit
quadruplex (third-person singular simple present quadruplexes, present participle quadruplexing, simple past and past participle quadruplexed)
- (transitive) To make quadruplex.
Latin edit
[a], [b] ← 3 | IV 4 |
5 → [a], [b], [c], [d] |
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Cardinal: quattuor Ordinal: quārtus Adverbial: quater Multiplier: quadruplex, quadruplus Distributive: quaternus, quadrīnus Collective: quaterniō Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius |
Etymology edit
From quattuor (“four”) + -plex (“-fold”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷa.dru.pleks/, [ˈkʷäd̪rʊpɫ̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.dru.pleks/, [ˈkwäːd̪rupleks]
Adjective edit
quadruplex (genitive quadruplicis); third-declension one-termination adjective
Declension edit
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | quadruplex | quadruplicēs | quadruplicia | ||
Genitive | quadruplicis | quadruplicium | |||
Dative | quadruplicī | quadruplicibus | |||
Accusative | quadruplicem | quadruplex | quadruplicēs | quadruplicia | |
Ablative | quadruplicī | quadruplicibus | |||
Vocative | quadruplex | quadruplicēs | quadruplicia |
Noun edit
quadruplex n (genitive quadruplicis); third declension
- a fourfold amount
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | quadruplex | quadruplica |
Genitive | quadruplicis | quadruplicum |
Dative | quadruplicī | quadruplicibus |
Accusative | quadruplex | quadruplica |
Ablative | quadruplice | quadruplicibus |
Vocative | quadruplex | quadruplica |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: quadruplex
References edit
- “quadruplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quadruplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadruplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.