Definition of Reduplicative

1. a. Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.

Definition of Reduplicative

1. Adjective. Formed by redoubling; reduplicate, double ¹

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Definition of Reduplicative

1. duplicative [adj] - See also: duplicative

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reduplicative

redundancy
redundant
redundant array of independent disks
redundant check
redundant colon
redundantly
reduplicant
reduplicants
reduplicate
reduplicated
reduplicates
reduplicating
reduplication
reduplications
reduplicative (current term)
reduplicatively
reduvid
reduvids
reduviid
reduviids
redux
redux(ip)
redward
redwards
redware
redwares
redwater
redwater fever
redwaters

Literary usage of Reduplicative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners, in Devanâgarî and Roman Letters Throughout by Friedrich Max Müller (1870)
"373- In the exceptional roots, which do not admit this shortening process, i, ^ e, ^ ai, ^i rf, wt o, s^ au are represented in the reduplicative syllable by ..."

2. Second Book of Sanskrit: Being a Treatise on Grammar, with Exercises by Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Shridhar Ramkrishna Bhandarkar (1908)
"The penultimate vowel is shortened, c. Then the root is to be reduplicated according to the general rules. If the syllable following the reduplicative one ..."

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