different between simplex vs simpled

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

English

Verb

simpled

1. simple past tense and past participle of simple

Anagrams

• dimples, mispled