Etymology

deduper

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Today it means: A deduplicator. Full definition →

English dedupe ← Latin duplicātus ← Proto-Italic *dē
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Latinduplex
  8. Latinduplicātus
  9. Englishduplicateclip.
  10. Englishdupe
  11. Englishdedupe
  12. English todaydeduper

From dedupe + -er.

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