secuplus
Latin
Etymology
Sense 1 ultimately from sēmi- (“half”) and sēsqui- (“one and a half”): perhaps compare the sē̆- of sē̆lībra (“half-pound”), sēmodius (“half-pack”). Sense 2 ultimately from sex (“six”): perhaps compare the sē- of sēdecim, sēnus, sēmēnstris, sēvir, although the development of -ex- to -ē- was only phonetically regular before a voiced consonant. It is possible that some cases are simply misspellings by omission of a letter.
Adjective
sē̆cuplus (feminine sē̆cupla, neuter sē̆cuplum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) alternative form of sēscuplus (“one and a half times as much”)
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) alternative form of sexcuplus (“six times as much”)
- Huguccio Pisanus, Derivationes:
- Et sunt illa vocabula hec: simplus, duplus, triplus, quadruplus, quincuplus, secuplus vel sescuplus, septuplus, octuplus, nuncuplus, decuplus, undecuplus, duodecuplus, tredecuplus, quatuordecuplus, quindecuplus, sedecuplus vel sesdecuplus...
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Et sunt illa vocabula hec: simplus, duplus, triplus, quadruplus, quincuplus, secuplus vel sescuplus, septuplus, octuplus, nuncuplus, decuplus, undecuplus, duodecuplus, tredecuplus, quatuordecuplus, quindecuplus, sedecuplus vel sesdecuplus...
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | sē̆cuplus | sē̆cupla | sē̆cuplum | sē̆cuplī | sē̆cuplae | sē̆cupla | |
| genitive | sē̆cuplī | sē̆cuplae | sē̆cuplī | sē̆cuplōrum | sē̆cuplārum | sē̆cuplōrum | |
| dative | sē̆cuplō | sē̆cuplae | sē̆cuplō | sē̆cuplīs | |||
| accusative | sē̆cuplum | sē̆cuplam | sē̆cuplum | sē̆cuplōs | sē̆cuplās | sē̆cupla | |
| ablative | sē̆cuplō | sē̆cuplā | sē̆cuplō | sē̆cuplīs | |||
| vocative | sē̆cuple | sē̆cupla | sē̆cuplum | sē̆cuplī | sē̆cuplae | sē̆cupla | |
References
- "hemiolium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)