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

• heterotriplex
• triplexer
• triplexity
• triplicity

Noun

triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

1. A building with three apartments or divisions.

   Synonym: threeplex

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.
5. 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 ].

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, no diminutive)

1. plywood consisting of three veneers

Coordinate terms

• multiplex

French

Etymology

By analogy with duplex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.plɛks/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

triplex m (invariable)

1. (Quebec) triplex; a building with three storeys, each constituting one apartment; such an apartment

Related vocabulary

• duplex

References

• “triplex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tréyes

Proto-Italic *trejes

Proto-Italic *trēs

Latin trēs

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.?

Latin -plex

Latin triplex

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

1. triple, threefold

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
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

• triplicēs
• triplicitās

Related terms

• trēs

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈplɛks/, /tɾiˈplɛ.kis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈplɛks/, /tɾiˈplɛ.kis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈplɛkʃ/, /tɾiˈplɛ.kis/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈplɛkʃ/

• Rhymes: -ɛks, -ɛkis, -ɛkʃ
• Hyphenation: tri‧plex

Noun

triplex m (invariable)

1. alternative form of tríplex

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French triplex.

Noun

triplex n (uncountable)

1. triplex

Declension

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