-fold
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.08 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
suffix
Used to make adjectives meaning "times".
Example Sentences
- "There has been a threefold increase in inflation ( = inflation is three times what it was before)"
- "The cancer tissue in two of the ... specimens ... exhibited a dramatic 23-fold increase in the laminin-receptor-mRNA levels."
- ""[Use] of a decimal without a zero to the left of the decimal (ie .5 instead of 0.5) has resulted in 10-fold error[.]"
- "Ezekiel outlines the harlotry of Judah followed by a thirty-two-fold judgment."
- "Inflation has increased threefold ( = inflation is three times what it was before)"
- "A publication ... entitled "The Sixth Financial and Economical Annual of Japan" ... issued in 1906 ... says: ¶ "...[O]ur export trade had in ... thirty-two years increased thirty-four-fold with Asia, twenty-three-fold with America, and five-fold with Europe[.]"
Etymology
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.