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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.sɛps/

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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

• biceps
• tricep
• quadriceps

• escript, picters

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.sɛps/

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• Hyphenation: tri‧ceps
• Rhymes: -isɛps

triceps m (plural tricepsen, no diminutive)

1. triceps brachii

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪ.kɛps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.t͡ʃeps]

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