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Bookmark or Share- Is there a word analogous to "dual" for three or more options?Re above suggestions: triple and three-fold have the connotation of identical instances or a multiplication of a single instance, which dual does not. (They also have the limitation of being related to double and twofold.) Three-way has connotations of some sort of physical object or direction, that I don't want either.
- etymology - What is the origin of the counting prefixes: uni-, bi-/di ...Many English words use the prefixes uni-, bi-/di-, tri-, quad- and so on to mean one, two, three, and four. For example: A unicycle has one wheel, a bicycle two, and a tricycle th
- Is there another word for five times, such as triple, quadruple?I forget what the word for 5 times is. I know it is single, double, triple, quadruple but forgot what the one for 5 is.
- How can I form a word like "quadruple" for any number I want?The usual way is just to find the Latin root and add the suffix: quintuple, sextuple, septuple, nonuple, etc. ...
- Are there examples of triple entendres in English?There are many triple entendres in HipHop, although not respected by most writers and english enthusiasts, HipHop has produce some of the most wittiest lines I've personally ever heard. Eminem-Zeus "Man I gotta be doing something right, I've got 11 years of sobriety, so the only bottom Imma be hitting is if it's sodomy."
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