Definition of Reduplicate

1. Verb. Form by reduplication. "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"

Exact synonyms: Geminate
Category relationships: Linguistics
Generic synonyms: Double, Duplicate, Repeat, Replicate

2. Verb. Make or do or perform again. "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
Exact synonyms: Double, Duplicate, Repeat, Replicate
Specialized synonyms: Copy, Replicate, Recapitulate, Geminate
Generic synonyms: Reproduce
Derivative terms: Double, Repeat, Repeater, Repeater, Repeating, Repetition, Repetitive, Replica, Replication

Definition of Reduplicate

1. a. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

2. v. t. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.

Definition of Reduplicate

1. Adjective. doubled ¹

2. Verb. (linguistics) To repeat a word or section of a word in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reduplicate

1. duplicate [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES] - See also: duplicate

Medical Definition of Reduplicate

1. 1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated. 2. Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; said of the stivation of certain flowers. Origin: Pref. Re- + duplicate: cf. L. Reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reduplicate

reductors
reducts
reduit
reduits
redundance
redundances
redundancies
redundancy
redundant
redundant array of independent disks
redundant check
redundant colon
redundantly
reduplicant
reduplicants
reduplicate (current term)
reduplicated
reduplicates
reduplicating
reduplication
reduplications
reduplicative
reduplicatively
reduvid
reduvids
reduviid
reduviids
redux
redux(ip)

Literary usage of Reduplicate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Some verbs whose themes begin with a, e, or o, followed by a single consonant, reduplicate by repeating the initial vowel and the consonant and by ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp (1862)
"arisen directly from the reduplicate root, by prefixing the augment, and descends from a period when the active was not as yet ..."

3. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Horace Hayman Wilson (1845)
"directly from the reduplicate root, by prefixing the augment, and descends from a period when the active was not as yet ..."

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