The story
- Latin · derived fromquindecim“fifteen”
- English todayquindecuplet
From quindecuple (“times fifteen; composed of 15 parts”) + -et (“forming diminutives”), from Latin quindecim (“fifteen”) + -plus (“-times, -fold”).
Words from the same roots
Latinquindecim all →
quindec-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.