sextuplicate

English

Etymology

From Latin sextuplicātus, past participle form of sextuplicāre (“to sextuple”), from sextuplus (“sixfold”), from sextus (“sixth”) (from sex (“six”)) + -plus (“-fold”) (from plicare (“to fold”)).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkət/ (adjective)
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkeɪt/ (verb)

Adjective

sextuplicate (not comparable)

Six times the number, volume, length, etc. (of something else).
The customer ordered a sextuplicate quantity.
Comprising six identical parts.
Benzene is a sextuplicate hydrocarbon.

Noun

sextuplicate (plural sextuplicates)

A series, set, collection, or group of six identical copies of something.
- 1945: United States Twelfth Army, Report of Operations: Final After Action Report, PAGE UNKNOWN
  If the official receipt is not available, the appropriate CA officer will prepare a similar receipt in sextuplicate.
- 1985, Erich Segal, The Class, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 28:
  …signed (in quadruplicate for the Financial Office, quintuplicate for the Registrar, and, inexplicably, sextuplicate for the Health Department).

Verb

sextuplicate (third-person singular simple present sextuplicates, present participle sextuplicating, simple past and past participle sextuplicated)

(transitive) To make six copies of.
Sextuplicate this document for me, please.

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Spanish

Verb

sextuplicate

second-person singular voseo imperative of sextuplicar combined with te