Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer. · To act or gesture in response. · To repeat something back; to echo.
A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. · Something given in reply. · A counterattack. · The answer of a figure.
From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“to fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“to fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.
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