sescuplus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From sēsqui- (“one and a half”) + -plus (“-fold”). ==== Alternative forms ==== sēsquiplus, sē̆cuplus ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈseːs.kʊ.pɫʊs], [seːsˈkʊp.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɛs.ku.plus], [sesˈkup.lus] ==== Adjective ==== sēscuplus (feminine sēscupla, neuter sēscuplum); first/second-declension adjective sesquialterate, sescuple; one and a half times as much, having the ratio of three parts to two ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From sexcuplus (“sixfold”) with simplification of -x- to -s-, either as part of the general tendency to simplify [ks] to [s] before a consonant, or more specifically by the dissimilation of [ksk] to [sk] also seen in words such as sescentī, escendō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɛs.kʊ.pɫʊs], [sɛsˈkʊp.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɛs.ku.plus], [sesˈkup.lus] ==== Adjective ==== sescuplus (feminine sescupla, neuter sescuplum); first/second-declension adjective alternative form of sexcuplus === References === === Further reading === “sescuplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sescuplus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “sescuplus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC