triplicate

English

Etymology

Early 15th century. From Latin triplicatus, form of triplicāre (“to triple”), from tri- (“three”) + plicāre (“to fold”).

Surface form tri- (“three”) +‎ plicate (“fold”), analogous with duplicate.

Pronunciation

• (adjective and noun) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.kət/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.keɪt/

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Adjective

triplicate (not comparable)

1. Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:threefold

Noun

triplicate (countable and uncountable, plural triplicates)

1. (uncountable) The making of three identical copies of something.
   • 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The prime minister is a determined centralist in thrall to a tactless and obsessive aide, Cummings, whose skill seems limited to writing slogans in triplicate.

2. (countable) Each of a set of three identical objects or copies.
   • 2022, Vincent Busigny, François P. Mathon, Didier Jézéquel, Cécile C. Bidaud, Eric Viollier, Gérard Bardoux, Jean-Jacques Bourrand, Karim Benzerara, Elodie Duprat, Nicolas Menguy, Caroline L. Monteil, Christopher T. Lefevre, “Mass collection of magnetotactic bacteria from the permanently stratified ferruginous Lake Pavin, France”, in Environmental Microbiology, volume 24, number 2 (Special Issue: microbe:metal/metalloid interactions), →DOI, pages 721-736:

     Among the six bottles, three of them were pumped every 30 minutes and the three others every 60 minutes. This provided a triplicate of each condition (30 or 60 minutes idle time between pumping).

Translations

each of a set of three identical objects

• Esperanto: triplikato
• Irish: triarach m
• Polish: trzecia kopia f, tryplikat (pl) m

Verb

triplicate (third-person singular simple present triplicates, present participle triplicating, simple past and past participle triplicated)

1. (transitive) To make three identical copies of something.
2. (transitive) To triple.

Coordinate terms

• sesquiplicate – one and a half times
• duplicate – two times

Translations

to make three copies

• Polish: wykonać w trzech egzemplarzach

to triple

• Bulgarian: утроявам (bg) (utrojavam)
• Maori: whakareatoru
• Polish: potroić
• Portuguese: triplicar (pt)
• Spanish: triplicar (es)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

triplicate

1. inflection of triplicare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

triplicate f pl

1. feminine plural of triplicato

Latin

Verb

triplicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of triplicō

Spanish

Verb

triplicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of triplicar combined with te