septemplicate
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prettygoodwordseptemplicate - n., one of seven (exact) copies.
Of, for ex, a document. This was a bigger deal before photocopiers, when there was a suite of numerical copies: duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate, quintuplicate, sextuplicate, septemplicate, and so on. Curiously, the OED stops the series there, though for ex Chambers' dictionary does include octuplicate. Septem is, of course, the combining form for the Latin word for seven -- September having been, in the Roman calendar, the seventh month.
---L.
Of, for ex, a document. This was a bigger deal before photocopiers, when there was a suite of numerical copies: duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate, quintuplicate, sextuplicate, septemplicate, and so on. Curiously, the OED stops the series there, though for ex Chambers' dictionary does include octuplicate. Septem is, of course, the combining form for the Latin word for seven -- September having been, in the Roman calendar, the seventh month.
---L.
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Date: 2014-05-16 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-16 04:22 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 2014-06-22 04:32 am (UTC)As one might expect, triplicate through quintuplicate had their heyday in around 1920 and 1940, though the recurrence in the late '70s and '80s is interesting.
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Date: 2014-06-23 02:11 pm (UTC)---L.