different between simples vs simplex

English

Etymology

See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in a TV advertisement for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.

Pronunciation

Interjection

simples

1. (Britain, slang, humorous) Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
   • 2009 April 14, "jamie powell" (username), "Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'", in uk.tech.digital-tv, Usenet:

     There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples!

   • 2010 March 25, Mike Jones, "Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet:

     So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.

   • 2010 August 10, "AC" (username), "Re: HD coverage of the Nascar Race and Indy car races makes the F1 coverage look like Crap", in rec.autos.sport.f1, Usenet:

     Look, the vast majority of F1 viewers don't have HD TV. There for the numbers don't add up. When they do, you will have your HD TV. Simples.

   • 2013 August 4, Matthew Bell, "It's a very good 17 days to bury bad news" in The Independent (London):

     Controversial plans to replace appointed peers with elected senators, longed for by the Lib Dems, were seemingly given a new berth among the leftovers of Sam Cam's veg box. Simples!

   • 2016 July 4, John Crace, "Up really is down on Mummy Leadsom's amazing journey", in The Guardian (London):

     Most things will go through on the nod. Simples. Everything will be fixed by Christmas.

Noun

simples

1. plural of simple

Verb

simples

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of simple

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?sim.pl?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sim.ples/

Adjective

simples

1. plural of simple

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??pl/

Adjective

simples

1. plural of simple

Noun

simples m

1. plural of simple

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

simples

1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative neuter singular of simpel

Mirandese

Adjective

simples m or f (plural simples)

1. simple

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese simplez, from Latin simplex.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s?.pl??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?.plis/, [?s???????.pl??s?]
• Hyphenation: sim?ples

Adjective

simples (plural simples, comparable)

1. simple

Derived terms

Spanish

Adjective

simples m pl or f pl

1. plural of simple

English

Etymology

From Latin simplex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mpl?ks/

Adjective

simplex (not comparable)

1. Single, simple; not complex.
2. (telecommunications) unidirectional

Antonyms

• (simple): complex
• (unidirectional): duplex (bidirectional)

Coordinate terms

(unidirectional):

• half-duplex
• semiduplex
• full duplex

Translations

Noun

simplex (plural simplexes or simplices or simplicia)

1. (geometry, algebraic topology) An analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1 points in n-dimensional space.
2. (linguistics) A simple word, one without affixes.
   • 1978, Helga Harries-Delisle, Contrastive Emphasis and Cleft Sentences, in Universals of Human Language, edited by Joseph H. Greenberg, ?ISBN, page 460:

     The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject.

Derived terms

• simplicial

Translations

See also

• complex

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sempleks, from the same root as semel + plic? (“I fold”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sim.pleks/, [?s??mp???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sim.pleks/, [?simpl?ks]

Adjective

simplex (genitive simplicis, comparative simplicior, superlative simplicissimus, adverb simpliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. single
2. simple, plain, uncompounded
3. pure, unmixed
4. sincere, naive, frank, open, without guile

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Derived terms

• simplic?bilis
• simplicit?s
• simpliciter

Related terms

• duplex
• simplus
• triplex
• quadruplex

Descendants

• Old Leonese:
  • Mirandese: simples
• Old Portuguese: simplez
  • Portuguese: simples, símplice
• ? Asturian: simple
• ? Catalan: simple
• ? Dutch: simpel
• ? English: simplex
• ? Friulian: sempliç
• ? Galician: simple
• ? German: simpel
  • ? Norwegian: simpel
• ? Italian: semplice
• ? Middle Low German: simpel
  • ? Old Swedish: simpel
    • Swedish: simpel
      • ? Finnish: simppeli
• ? Old French: simple, sinple
  • French: simple
    • ? Romanian: simplu
  • ? Middle English: symple, simple
    • Scots: semple
    • English: simple
• ? Romansch: simpel, sempel
• Sicilian: sìmprici, sìmplici
• ? Spanish: simple
  • Chavacano: simple
• ? Brythonic: *s?ml
  • Middle Welsh: symyl
    • Welsh: syml

References

• simplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• simplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• simplex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• simplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French simplex.

Noun

simplex n (uncountable)

1. simplex

Declension