-fold

后缀
中文释义

英文释义

后缀
  1. Used to make adjectives meaning times. morpheme
    — There has been a threefold increase in inflation ( = inflation is three times what it was before)
  2. Used to make adverbs meaning times. morpheme
    — Inflation has increased threefold ( = inflation is three times what it was before)

词汇关系

衍生词
onefold twofold threefold fourfold fivefold sixfold sevenfold eightfold ninefold tenfold elevenfold twelvefold twentyfold thirtyfold fortyfold fiftyfold sixtyfold seventyfold eightyfold ninetyfold hundredfold thousandfold millionfold manifold

词源

From Middle English -fold, -fald, -fauld, from Old English -feald (“-fold”), from Proto-West Germanic *-falþ, from Proto-Germanic *-falþaz (“-fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *-poltos (“-fold”), from *pel- (“to fold”).
Cognate with Dutch -voud, Swedish -faldig (“-fold”), Latin -plus, -plex, Ancient Greek -παλτος (-paltos), -πλος (-plos), -πλόος (-plóos). More at fold.
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