Etymology

duplicarius

D2U1P3L1I1C3A1R1I1U1S1

Today it means: A member of the Ancient Roman army who received double the basic pay. Full definition →

Latin duplicārius
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromduplicārius
  2. English todayduplicarius

Borrowed from Latin duplicārius, from duplicō (“multiply by two”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.