different between cottage vs duplex

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutan, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut.

Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.

Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/
• Hyphenation: cot?tage

Noun

cottage (plural cottages)

1. A small house.

   Synonyms: cot, hut

2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

4. (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.

   Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, (US) tea house

Derived terms

• cottage cheese
• cottage food operation
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry
• telecottage

Related terms

• cosset
• cot
• coterie

Descendants

• ? French: cottage

Translations

Verb

cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Further reading

• cottage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.ta?/

Noun

cottage m (plural cottages)

1. cottage

Portuguese

Noun

cottage m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare ????? (plék?, “twist, braid”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: do?o'pl?ks, IPA^(key): /?dupl?ks/

Adjective

duplex (not comparable)

1. Double, made up of two parts.
2. (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).

   duplex telegraphy

3. (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
   • 1977, Australian Journal of Botany (volume 25, page 462)

     Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic. The dominant trees are the stringybark eucalypts […]

Antonyms

• (bidirectional): simplex (unidirectional)

Hyponyms

(bidirectional):

• full duplex
• half-duplex
• semiduplex

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

duplex (plural duplexes)

1. (US) A house made up of two dwelling units.
2. (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
3. (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
5. (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
   • 1993, David J. Lidke, Jack Burton Epstein, Chester A. Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin (page 16)

     In contrast, the folds in the overlying lithotectonic unit 4 are larger and are cut by a series of faults in a duplex.

   • 1995, Robert D. Hatcher, Structural Geology: Principles, Concepts, and Problems (page 211)

     It has been noted, using a combination of surface geologic and seismic reflection data, that a duplex, although formed in response to movement of a thrust sheet, frequently arches the thrust sheet as the duplex is built by duplication of rocks beneath it […]

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Translations

See also

Verb

duplex (third-person singular simple present duplexes, present participle duplexing, simple past and past participle duplexed)

1. To make duplex.
2. To make into a duplex.
3. (juggling) To make a series of duplex throws.

Related terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duplex, see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.pl?ks/

Noun

duplex m (plural duplex)

1. a link between two points, such as a cable or a wire
2. duplex, maisonette (dwelling)

Derived terms

• duplexer

Further reading

• “duplex” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duplex.

Noun

duplex m (invariable)

1. party line

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dwipleks, formed from duo (“two”) and plec-, from the root of plic? (“fold”); cf. also plect?, plexum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?du.pleks/, [?d??p???ks?] or IPA^(key): /?dup.leks/, [?d??p???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?du.pleks/, [?d?u?pl?ks] or IPA^(key): /?dup.leks/, [?d?upl?ks]

Adjective

duplex (genitive duplicis, adverb dupliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. twofold, double
2. bipartite, cloven
3. ambiguous

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• Sg.Abl. sometimes duplice.

Descendants

• English: duplex
• French: duplex
• Galician: dobre (possibly)
• Italian: duplice, duplex
• Spanish: doble (possibly), dúplex

References

• duplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• duplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• duplex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• duplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French duplex

Noun

duplex n (plural duplexuri)

1. duplex

Declension