reduplication

American  

[ri-doo-pli-key-shuhn, -dyoo-] / rɪˌdu plɪˈkeɪ ʃən, -ˌdyu- /

noun

1. the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.

2. something resulting from reduplicating.

3. Grammar.

   1. reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.

   2. the added element in a reduplicated form.

   3. a form containing a reduplicated element.

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reduplication British  

/ rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən /

noun

1. the process or an instance of redoubling

2. the state, condition, or quality of being redoubled

3. a thing that has been redoubled

4. repetition of a sound or syllable in a word, as in the formation of the Latin perfect tetigi from tangere "touch"

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-reduplication
  noun

Etymology

Origin of reduplication

First recorded in 1580–90, reduplication is from the Late Latin word reduplicātiōn- (stem of reduplicātiō ). See reduplicate, -ion

Example Sentences

What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

From Time Magazine Archive

"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."

From Time Magazine Archive

We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reduplication of the consonant after a vowel, as in spotted, torrent, is in most cases but an orthographical expedient.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

A characteristic feature of this language is described in explaining syllabic reduplication, which performs iterative and distributive functions.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various