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| | 20 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ------------------------------------------- | | ← 1 | 2 | 3 → | | Cardinal: two Ordinal: second Abbreviated ordinal: 2nd Latinate ordinal: secondary Reverse order ordinal: second last, second to last, second from last, last but one Latinate reverse order ordinal: penultimate Adverbial: two times, twice Multiplier: twofold Latinate multiplier: double Distributive: doubly Germanic collective: pair, twosome Collective of n parts: doublet, couple, couplet Greek or Latinate collective: dyad Metric collective prefix: double- Greek collective prefix: di-, duo- Latinate collective prefix: bi- Fractional: half Metric fractional prefix: demi- Latinate fractional prefix: semi- Greek fractional prefix: hemi- Elemental: twin, doublet Greek prefix: deutero- Number of musicians: duo, duet, duplet Number of years: biennium | | |

two-fold

PIE word
*dwóh₁

From Middle English twofold, from Old English twēofeald. Equivalent to two +‎ -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig.

(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtuːfəʊld/
(General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtufoʊld/
(General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtʉːfəʉld/
(New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈtʉːfɐʉld/

twofold (not comparable)

Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.
The wheat produced a twofold harvest.
Having two parts, especially two different parts.
a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument
- 1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Pythian Ode III, page 65.
  Had I but landed there and brought unto him a twofold joy, first golden health and next this my song of triumph to be a splendour in his Pythian crown […]
- 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 7, page 107:
  It is the tale of Ixion's twofold guilt, unnatural murder and unlawful love.
- 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy‎[1]:
  "Wallace's suggestion for overcoming the epistemological and solipsistic effects of innate selfishness is twofold."