noncuple

verb /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/

1. Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.

   rare, transitive

   If you shall quadruple the same weight it will draw down double the first distance, and noncuple will draw it down treble, etc.

Where it comes from

First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry noncuple (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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