noncuple

The story

1. Latin · derived fromnōnus“ninth”
2. Latin · derived fromnoncuplus“nine times larger than”
3. English todaynoncuple

First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.

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