triceps

See also: tríceps

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.sɛps/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• side triceps
• triceps surae

 

Related terms

• biceps
• tricep
• quadriceps

Translations

any muscle having three heads

• Arabic: ذَات اَلثَّلَاث رُؤُوسّ f (ḏāt aṯ-ṯalāṯ ruʔūss), مُثَلَّثَة اَلرُّؤُوس f (muṯallaṯat ar-ruʔūs)

  Egyptian Arabic: تراي f (teraai)

• Bulgarian: триглав мускул m (triglav muskul)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三頭肌／三头肌 (zh) (sāntóujī), 肱三頭肌／肱三头肌 (zh) (gōngsāntóujī)

• Finnish: kolmipäinen lihas
• French: triceps (fr) m
• Galician: tríceps m
• German: Trizeps (de) m
• Ido: tricepso (io)
• Italian: tricipite (it) m
• Japanese: 三頭筋 (ja) (さんとうきん, santōkin)
• Korean: 삼두근 (ko) (samdugeun)
• Maori: uatoru
• Portuguese: tríceps (pt) m
• Russian: три́цепс (ru) m (tríceps)
• Swedish: triceps (sv) c

triceps brachii — see triceps brachii

Anagrams

• escript, picters

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.sɛps/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tri‧ceps
• Rhymes: -isɛps

Noun

triceps m (plural tricepsen)

1. triceps brachii

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	triceps			tricipitēs	tricipitia
genitive	tricipitis			tricipitium
dative	tricipitī			tricipitibus
accusative	tricipitem	triceps		tricipitēs	tricipitia
ablative	tricipitī			tricipitibus
vocative	triceps			tricipitēs	tricipitia

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “triceps”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French triceps, from Latin triceps.

Noun

triceps m (plural tricepși)

1. triceps

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	triceps	tricepsul		tricepși	tricepșii
genitive-dative	triceps	tricepsului		tricepși	tricepșilor
vocative	tricepsule			tricepșilor

Spanish

Noun

triceps m (plural triceps)

1. triceps