simple

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Derived terms 1.6 Anagrams 2 Catalan 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Adjective 2.3.1 Synonyms 2.3.2 Derived terms 2.3.3 Related terms 3 Esperanto 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Adverb 4 French 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Adjective 4.2.1 Related terms 5 Galician 5.1 Adjective 6 Romanian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Adjective 7 Spanish 7.1 Adjective 7.2 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

< Middle English simple < Old French and French simple < Latin simplex (“‘simple, literally 'onefold', as opposed to duplex, twofold, double’”) < sim- (“‘the same’”) + plicare (“‘to fold’”): see same and ply. Cf. single, singular, simultaneous, etc.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪmpl/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɪmpəl

• Hyphenation: sim‧ple

[edit] Adjective

simple (comparative simpler, superlative simplest)

1. Having few parts or features; having no special features.
   • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,

     There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

2. (colloquial) Feeble-minded.
3. (mathematics, of a group) Having no normal subgroup.
4. (mathematics, of a Lie group) Having no connected normal subgroup.

[edit] Synonyms

• (having few parts or features): plain
• See WikiSaurus:easy

[edit] Antonyms

• (having few parts or features): complex, compound, complicated

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

simple (plural simples)

1. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
2. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to simple (third-person singular simple present simples, present participle simpling, simple past and past participle simpled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

[edit] Derived terms

• simpler
• simplist

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eilmps
• impels

---

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology

From Latin simplex.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (Eastern Catalan) IPA: [ˈsimpɫə]
• (Western Catalan) IPA: [ˈsimpɫe]

[edit] Adjective

simple m. and f. (plural simples, obsolete feminine simpla)

1. simple (uncomplicated)
2. single (not divided into parts)

[edit] Synonyms

• senzill

[edit] Derived terms

• fulla simple (“simple leaf”)
• simplement (“simply”)

[edit] Related terms

• símplex (“simplex”)
• simplicitat (“simplicity”)
• ximple

---

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Etymology

simpl- + -e

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsimple/

[edit] Adverb

simple

1. simply

---

[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}
• IPA: /s̃ɛpl/, SAMPA: /sE~pl/

[edit] Adjective

simple (epicene, plural simples)

1. simple
2. one-way

   Un billet simple.

   A one-way ticket.

[edit] Related terms

• aller simple
• simplement
• simplicité
• simplifier

---

[edit] Galician

[edit] Adjective

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. simple

---

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈsim.ple]

[edit] Adjective

simple

1. feminine plural nominative form of simplu.
2. feminine plural accusative form of simplu.
3. neuter plural nominative form of simplu.
4. neuter plural accusative form of simplu.

---

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Adjective

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. simple
2. mere, uncomplicated, easy
3. single
4. insipid

[edit] Noun

simple m. and f. (plural simples)

1. simpleton, fool
2. (pharmacology, masculine) simple