doublet (etymology)
Definition: Unique words that derive from borrowing and re-borrowing the same foreign word.
Note: three such words — e.g., cattle, chattel, and capital — are called triplets.
Example:
(1) The words frail and fragile are doublets that derive from the Latin fragilis, fragile;
(2) aperture and overture (from the Latin aperire, to open); and
(3) thesaurus and treasure (from the Greek thesauros, a storehouse).
Etymology: The word derives from the French doublet, which was coined as a diminutive of double.



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