duplicatus

[doo-pli-key-tuhs, dyoo-]

adjective

Meteorology.

1. (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.

Word History and Origins

Origin of duplicatus¹

< Latin: doubled; duplicate

Example Sentences

Later excavations made in 1900 have proved that this first basilica had two equal naves, and remains of a marble chancel recalled the phrase in the S. Maurus inscription found beneath the high-altar in 1846: "ideo in honorem duplicatus est locus."

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