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English

Etymology

From Latin tr?ceps (“triple-headed”), from tr?s (“three”) + caput (“head”).

Noun

triceps (plural triceps or tricepses)

1. (anatomy) Any muscle having three heads.
2. (anatomy) Specifically, the triceps brachii.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• biceps
• tricep
• quadriceps

Translations

Anagrams

• escript, picters

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri.s?ps/
• Hyphenation: tri?ceps
• Rhymes: -is?ps

Noun

triceps m (plural tricepsen)

1. triceps brachii

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.keps/, [?t???k?ps?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.t??eps/, [?t??i?t???ps]

Adjective

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

1. triple-headed, having three heads
2. divided into three parts

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Descendants

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

References

• 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

Romanian

Etymology

From French triceps, from Latin triceps.

Noun

triceps m (plural tricep?i)

1. triceps

Declension

Spanish

Noun

triceps m (plural triceps)

1. triceps

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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