"reduplicate" meaning in English

See reduplicate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more reduplicate [comparative], most reduplicate [superlative]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin reduplicātus, from reduplicāre, from re- with duplicāre. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|-}} Medieval Latin, {{EtymOnLine}} Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “reduplicate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. Head templates: {{en-adj}} reduplicate (comparative more reduplicate, superlative most reduplicate)
  1. doubled
    Sense id: en-reduplicate-en-adj-xD-wXeTY
  2. (botany) valvate with the margins curved outwardly Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-reduplicate-en-adj-tsQANesH Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  3. (botany) folded, with the abaxial surfaces facing one another Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-reduplicate-en-adj-PXmcHNvG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 17 32 3 23 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

Verb

Forms: reduplicates [present, singular, third-person], reduplicating [participle, present], reduplicated [participle, past], reduplicated [past]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin reduplicātus, from reduplicāre, from re- with duplicāre. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|-}} Medieval Latin, {{EtymOnLine}} Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “reduplicate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. Head templates: {{en-verb}} reduplicate (third-person singular simple present reduplicates, present participle reduplicating, simple past and past participle reduplicated)
  1. (transitive) To double again: to multiply: to repeat. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-reduplicate-en-verb-xe~bI1Uj
  2. (transitive, linguistics) To repeat (a word or part of a word) in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (To repeat a word or section of a word): повтарям (povtarjam) (Bulgarian), reduplizieren (German), по́втори (póvtori) [perfective] (Macedonian), повто́рува (povtóruva) [imperfective] (Macedonian)
    Sense id: en-reduplicate-en-verb-z6BGQl0T Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'To repeat a word or section of a word': 20 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: reduplication

Inflected forms

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