reduplicate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: re=du=pli=cate

CIDE DICTIONARY

reduplicate, a. [Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.].

•  Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.  [1913 Webster]
•  Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the 1913 Webster]

reduplicate, v. t. [Cf. LL. reduplicare.].

•  To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.  [1913 Webster]
•  To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reduplicate, v.tr.
1 make double.
2 repeat.
3 repeat (a letter or syllable or word) exactly or with a slight change (e.g. hurly-burly, see-saw).

Derivative

reduplication n. reduplicative adj.

Etymology

LL reduplicare (as RE-, DUPLICATE)

ROGET THESAURUS

reduplicate

Duplication

VB double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate, geminate, repeat, renew.