different between fourfold vs quadruplicate

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 quadruplicatus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?kw??d?u?pl?k?t/

Adjective

quadruplicate (not comparable)

1. having four parts
   • 1903: H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making

     The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […]

2. four times over, multiplied by four
   • 1891: Rudyard Kipling, American Notes

     […] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.

Noun

quadruplicate (plural quadruplicates)

1. in quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies
   • c.1886: Rudyard Kipling, The Lovers' Litany

     Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.

Verb

quadruplicate (third-person singular simple present quadruplicates, present participle quadruplicating, simple past and past participle quadruplicated)

1. To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.

See also

• triplicate
• duplicate

Italian

Verb

quadruplicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of quadruplicare
2. second-person plural imperative of quadruplicare
3. feminine plural of quadruplicato

Latin

Verb

quadruplic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of quadruplic?