duper

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin upupader.

Vulgar Latin ūppader.

Old French huppeder.

Middle French duppe

French duperbor.

English dupe

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English duper

From dupe + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.pə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.pɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Noun

duper (plural dupers)

1. a person who dupes another

Translations

person who dupes

• Bulgarian: измамник (bg) m (izmamnik), мошеник (bg) m (mošenik), подлец (bg) m (podlec), шарлатан m (šarlatan), шарлатанин (bg) m (šarlatanin) (colloquial)

See also

• super-duper (etymologically unrelated)

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Latin duplex

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin duplicātusbor.

English duplicateclip.

English dupe

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

▲

Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English duper

From dupe + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.pə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.pɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Noun

duper (plural dupers)

1. (video games) a player who duplicates items by using a dupe

Anagrams

• Dupre, Prude, drupe, perdu, prude, red up, red-up

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin upupader.

Vulgar Latin ūppader.

Old French huppeder.

Middle French duppe

French duper

From Middle French duppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.pe/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /dzʏ.pe/

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Verb

duper

1. to trick, fool, dupe

Conjugation

Conjugation of duper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	duper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dupant /dy.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dupé /dy.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dupe /dyp/	dupes /dyp/	dupe /dyp/	dupons /dy.pɔ̃/	dupez /dy.pe/	dupent /dyp/
	imperfect	dupais /dy.pɛ/	dupais /dy.pɛ/	dupait /dy.pɛ/	dupions /dy.pjɔ̃/	dupiez /dy.pje/	dupaient /dy.pɛ/
	past historic2	dupai /dy.pe/	dupas /dy.pa/	dupa /dy.pa/	dupâmes /dy.pam/	dupâtes /dy.pat/	dupèrent /dy.pɛʁ/
	future	duperai /dy.pʁe/	duperas /dy.pʁa/	dupera /dy.pʁa/	duperons /dy.pʁɔ̃/	duperez /dy.pʁe/	duperont /dy.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	duperais /dy.pʁɛ/	duperais /dy.pʁɛ/	duperait /dy.pʁɛ/	duperions /dy.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	duperiez /dy.pə.ʁje/	duperaient /dy.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	dupe /dyp/	dupes /dyp/	dupe /dyp/	dupions /dy.pjɔ̃/	dupiez /dy.pje/	dupent /dyp/
	imperfect2	dupasse /dy.pas/	dupasses /dy.pas/	dupât /dy.pa/	dupassions /dy.pa.sjɔ̃/	dupassiez /dy.pa.sje/	dupassent /dy.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dupe /dyp/	—	dupons /dy.pɔ̃/	dupez /dy.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → Dutch: duperen
• → German: düpieren

Further reading

• “duper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• drupe, perdu