triplex

See also: Triplex

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

Noun

triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

A building with three apartments or divisions.
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 […]
(juggling) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
(music, uncountable) Triple time.
Anything with three parts.
- 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:
  In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].

Synonyms

(building): threeplex

Verb

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

(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)

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, no diminutive)

plywood consisting of three veneers

Coordinate terms

multiplex

Latin

**Latin numbers ^(edit)**
^{[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): [ˈtrɪ.pɫɛks]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.pleks]

Adjective

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

triple, threefold

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	triplex		triplicēs	triplicia
genitive	triplicis		triplicium
dative	triplicī		triplicibus
accusative	triplicem	triplex	triplicīs triplicēs	triplicia
ablative	triplicī triplice		triplicibus
vocative	triplex		triplicēs	triplicia

Derived terms

Related terms

trēs

Descendants

>? Sicilian: trìprici
→ English: triplex, Triplex
→ French: triplex
→ German: Triplex-, Triplex
→ Italian: triplex, triplice (semi-learned)

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^[2], 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)

triplex

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	triplex	triplexul
genitive-dative	triplex	triplexului
vocative	triplexule