reduplicate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin reduplicātus, from reduplicāre, from re- with duplicāre.[1]
Verb
reduplicate (third-person singular simple present reduplicates, present participle reduplicating, simple past and past participle reduplicated)
- (transitive) To double again: to multiply: to repeat.
- (transitive, linguistics) To repeat (a word or part of a word) in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.
Related terms
Translations
To repeat a word or section of a word
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Italian
References
- “reduplicate” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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