quotuplex
Latin
Alternative forms
- quotiplex (due to sonus medius)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷɔ.tʊ.pɫɛks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷɔː.t̪u.pleks]
Adjective
quotuplex (genitive quotuplicis); third-declension one-termination adjective (New Latin, rare, sometimes proscribed)
- (relative) as (is) manyfold
- Coordinate term: totuplex
- 1511, Ioannes Marius Philelphus, “De Confirmatione”, in Epistole Mari Philelphi[1]:
- At confirmatio totuplex debet eſſe : quotuplex diuiſio : hoc est unaqueqꝫ partitionis pars debet confirmationem habere propriam
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- [1553, Lucio Giovanni Scoppa, “De Partitivis”, in Epithome, page 136:
- Quotuplex de quante pieghe, duppie, ſorte, manere, qualitate, referũtur ſimplex, duplex, triplex, quadruplex; & reliqua ut la tua ueste e de otto pieghi; doppie como la noſtra, uestis tua est octuplex, quotuplex, uel ſicut noſtra, & hoc melius, quoniam quotuplex & totuplex non ſunt in uſu: tu porti una ueste de tre ſorte, colori manere como la mia, tu portas ueſtem triplicem ſicut est mea.
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- (interrogative) how manyfold, of how many parts
- 1631, “Index, De Spiritibus”, in Les Œuvres de Nicolas Abraham de La Framboisière, page 108:
- Cur ſpiritus impellentium nomine deſignentur & quotuplex ſit fpiritus. qui inſitus. qui influens. quotuplex ſit. qui animalis. qui vitalis.
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Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | quotuplex | quotuplicēs | quotuplicia | ||
| genitive | quotuplicis | quotuplicium | |||
| dative | quotuplicī | quotuplicibus | |||
| accusative | quotuplicem | quotuplex | quotuplicēs | quotuplicia | |
| ablative | quotuplicī | quotuplicibus | |||
| vocative | quotuplex | quotuplicēs | quotuplicia | ||
References
- “quotuplex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “quotumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “quotuplex”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC