different between fourfold vs quadruplex

English

Etymology

From Middle English fourfold, fourefold, from Old English f?owerfeald. Equivalent to four +? -fold. Cognate with Dutch viervoud, Gothic ???????????????????????????????????????? (fidurfalþs).

Adjective

fourfold (not comparable)

1. Four times as great; quadruple.
2. Comprised of four individual members.

Synonyms

• quadruple, quadruplicate

Translations

Adverb

fourfold (not comparable)

1. by a factor of four

   • He shall restore the lamb fourfold.

Synonyms

• quadruply; see also Thesaurus:four times

Translations

Verb

fourfold (third-person singular simple present fourfolds, present participle fourfolding, simple past and past participle fourfolded)

1. to increase to four times as much; to multiply by four

Synonyms

• quadruple, quadruplicate

Translations

Noun

fourfold (plural fourfolds)

1. (mathematics) An algebraic variety of degree 4.

English

Etymology

From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”)

Adjective

quadruplex (not comparable)

1. Having four components.
2. Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
3. Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.

Translations

Noun

quadruplex (plural quadruplexes)

1. A quadruplex system.

Translations

Verb

quadruplex (third-person singular simple present quadruplexes, present participle quadruplexing, simple past and past participle quadruplexed)

1. (transitive) To make quadruplex.

Latin

Etymology

From quattuor (“four”) + plic? (“fold, double up”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?a.dru.pleks/, [?k?äd???p???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kwa.dru.pleks/, [?kw??d??upl?ks]

Adjective

quadruplex (genitive quadruplicis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. fourfold, quadruple

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Noun

quadruplex n (genitive quadruplicis); third declension

1. a fourfold amount

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Related terms

• quadruplic?ti?
• quadruplic?t?
• quadruplic?
• quadrupl?
• quadruplus

Descendants

• English: quadruplex

References

• quadruplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadruplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadruplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette