different between centuple vs centuplicate

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?p?l

Adjective

centuple (not comparable)

1. Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.

Translations

Verb

centuple (third-person singular simple present centuples, present participle centupling, simple past and past participle centupled)

1. (intransitive) To increase a hundredfold.
2. (transitive) To increase or multiply something by a hundred.
   • 2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

     "Mechanisation, science, and technology have centupled the productive potential of human labour."

Related terms

• centuplication

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.typl/

Noun

centuple m (plural centuples)

1. hundredfold quantity

Verb

centuple

1. first-person singular present indicative of centupler
2. third-person singular present indicative of centupler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of centupler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of centupler
5. second-person singular imperative of centupler

Italian

Adjective

centuple

1. feminine plural of centuplo

Latin

Adjective

cent?ple

1. vocative masculine singular of cent?plus

English

Etymology

Latin centuplicare. See centuple.

Verb

centuplicate (third-person singular simple present centuplicates, present participle centuplicating, simple past and past participle centuplicated)

1. To make a hundredfold; to repeat or multiply a hundred times.
   • c. 1640s, James Howell, "To R. Baker" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     I perform'd the civilities you enjoyn'd me to your frends here, who return you the like centuplicated

References

centuplicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Verb

centuplicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of centuplicare
2. second-person plural imperative of centuplicare
3. feminine plural of centuplicato

Latin

Verb

cent?plic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cent?plic?