-fold
a native english suffix meaning “of so many parts,” or denoting multiplication by the number indicated by the stem or word to which the suffix is attached:
twofold; manifold.
-fold
suffix, suffix
having so many parts, being so many times as much or as many, or multiplied by so much or so many threefold, three-hundredfold
word origin
-fold
multiplicative suffix, from o.e. -feald, related to o.n. -faldr; ger. -falt; goth. falþs; gk. -paltos, -plos; l. -plus. crowded out in eng. by latinate double, triple, etc., but still in manifold (q.v.).
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