“i saw that julia was really annoyed when mike answered, “‘blade runner,’”” john said The usual way is just to find the latin root and add the suffix Quintuple, sextuple, septuple, nonuple, etc I forget what the word for 5 times is I know it is single, double, triple, quadruple but forgot what the one for 5 is. What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces before/after them
Ask question asked 14 years, 6 months ago modified 5 years ago The answer is not really, because the usual rules of english spelling outlaw triple letters We put hyphens in words that contain three of the same letters in a row, so as to break the letters up, e.g According to the cambridge corpus of american english, americans strongly prefer triple as an adjective, noun and verb British and australian writers, on the other hand, seem to use both triple and treble, but with treble more frequent as a verb and triple as a noun and adjective Fowler distinguished between treble meaning that something had become three times as large in size, and triple.
Triple crown in horse racing, triple score in a video game, a triple scoop for an ice cream cone As a noun or adjective, triple is probably the best of all the examples (the others have more context restricted usage). You are correct, they are from latin and greek, we have simply inherited terms from both There is a good reference for latin and greek roots over at wikipedia Unary, union bi/di meaning two For example, when some long prose passage ends, this appears
* * * then some new prose passage begins The three asterisks dividing the two prose sections are understood to divide the two sect.
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