triplex

See also: Triplex

English

Etymology

From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- +‎ -plex.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

1. Having three parts; triple or threefold.
   1. (architecture) Having three floors
   2. (architecture) Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments

Derived terms

• triplexity
• Triplexity (name of a boardgame)
• Triplexity (virtual band consisting of 3 members, their name is said to be a portmanteau of triplex and complexity)
• triplicity

Noun

triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

1. A building with three apartments or divisions.
2. A dwelling unit with three floors.
   • 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Pure Language”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

     There were influential and corruptible people like his friend, Max, onetime singer for the Pink Buttons, now a wind-power potentate who owned a SoHo triplex and threw a caviar-strewn Christmas party each year […]

3. (juggling) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. (music, uncountable) Triple time.

Synonyms

• (building): threeplex

Verb

triplex (third-person singular simple present triplexes, present participle triplexing, simple past and past participle triplexed)

1. (transitive) To make triplex.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin triplex. In the sense “three-veneer plywood” likely a shortening of triplexhout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.plɛks/

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• Hyphenation: tri‧plex

Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

1. threefold

Declension

Declension of triplex
uninflected	triplex
inflected	triplex
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		triplex
indefinite	m./f. sing.	triplex
	n. sing.	triplex
	plural	triplex
definite		triplex
partitive		triplex

Noun

triplex n (uncountable)

1. plywood consisting of three veneers

Coordinate terms

• multiplex

Latin

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[a], [b], [c] ←  2	III 3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: trēs     Ordinal: tertius     Adverbial: ter     Proportional: triplus     Multiplier: triplex     Distributive: ternus, trīnus     Collective: terniō     Fractional: triēns

Etymology

From trēs (“three”) +‎ -plex (“-fold”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.pleks/, [ˈt̪rɪpɫ̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.pleks/, [ˈt̪riːpleks]

Adjective

triplex (genitive triplicis, adverb tripliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. triple, threefold

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	triplex			triplicēs	triplicia
Genitive	triplicis			triplicium
Dative	triplicī			triplicibus
Accusative	triplicem	triplex		triplicēs	triplicia
Ablative	triplicī			triplicibus
Vocative	triplex			triplicēs	triplicia

Derived terms

• triplicēs
• triplicitās

Related terms

• trēs

Descendants

• English: triplex, Triplex
• French: triplex
• German: Triplex-, Triplex
• Italian: triplice
• Sicilian: trìprici

References

• “triplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in two, three columns: agmine duplici, triplici
    
  • to draw up the army in three lines: aciem triplicem instruere (B. G. 1. 24)
    

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French triplex.

Noun

triplex n (uncountable)

1. triplex

Declension

declension of triplex (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) triplex	triplexul
genitive/dative	(unui) triplex	triplexului
vocative	triplexule