Duplexed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. A housing design featuring two independent dwelling units that are attached A configuration where two operational elements are linked as a single entity A real estate form that integrates two separate living quarters into one cohesive structure
2. Consisting of two separate homes joined within one structure ; formed by linking two parts to work as one unit
3. Designed as a building containing two distinct apartments attached to each other ; connected by combining two components into a single functional system

Etymology: "Duplexed" is the past tense of the verb "duplex," which in English means to divide a building or a signal into two parts, or to link two things so they work as one. The verb is built from a Latin adjective, "duplex," meaning "double" or "two-fold," itself formed from "duo," meaning "two," and "plico," meaning "fold together." So the word's core image is literally a two-fold fold: something doubled over on itself. The same Latin adjective is the source of the English noun "duplex," which referred to a house divided into two separate dwellings and later to a two-unit apartment building. Many English speakers meet the word first in that architectural sense, and the verb followed as the idea of splitting one structure into two households was applied more broadly to anything paired or doubled. Latin "duplex" also has a Greek cousin, "diplóos," meaning "double," which shares the same basic idea of two-fold, and a further relative in "plékō," meaning "twist" or "braid," reflecting the same fold-and-weave root.