triceps

 

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triceps

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From Latin trīceps (“triple-headed”), from trēs (“three”) + caput (“head”). See there for more details.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.sɛps/

• Audio (Southern England):

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triceps (plural triceps or tricepses)

1. (anatomy) Any muscle having three heads.
2. (anatomy) Specifically, the triceps brachii.
   • 2010, Christina T. Loguidice, Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies:

     Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.

• (muscle in the arm): triceps brachii, triceps extensor cubiti

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• tricep
• quadriceps

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Borrowed from Latin triceps (“three-headed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.sɛps/

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• Hyphenation: tri‧ceps
• Rhymes: -isɛps

triceps m (plural tricepsen)

1. triceps brachii

From Proto-Italic *triskaputis. Equivalent to trēs (“three”) +‎ -ceps (“headed”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.keps/, [ˈt̪rɪkɛps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈt̪riːt͡ʃeps]

triceps (genitive tricipitis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. triple-headed, having three heads
2. divided into three parts
   • 1504, Gregor Reisch, Margarita Philosophica‎^[1], Strasbourg, page titular:

     Philosophia triceps: naturalis, rationalis, moralis.

     Tripartite philosophy: natural, rational, moral.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• English: triceps
• Galician: tríceps
• Spanish: tríceps

• “triceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triceps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French triceps, from Latin triceps.

triceps m (plural tricepși)

1. triceps

triceps m (plural triceps)

1. triceps