Triceps

Definition: Triceps

Triceps

Noun

1. Any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii).

Date "triceps" was first used: 1704. (references)

Etymology: Triceps \Tri"ceps\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression triceps, having three beads; tres, tria, three caput head: compare to the French expression triceps. See Three, and Chief.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Triceps

English words defined with "triceps": antagonistic muscle ♦ musculus articularis cubiti. (references)

Etymologies containing "triceps": Tricipital. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Triceps" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (triceps), Czech (triceps), Hungarian (triceps, triceps muscle), Latin (three-headed, triceps), Spanish (triceps), Swedish (triceps).

Domain	Title
Books	Amazing Arms: Get Toned Triceps, Beautiful Biceps, and Sexy Shoulders in Just Minutes a Day (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Chest & Triceps Training (reference) Joe Weider's Bodybuilding System, Vol. 4: Chest & Triceps Training (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Triceps" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 65.22% of the time. "Triceps" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	65.22%	15	90,616
Noun (proper)	26.09%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (-s form)	8.7%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

Expressions using "triceps": musculus triceps brachii ♦ triceps brachii. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "triceps"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		triceps. (various references)

Bulgarian		трицепс, триглав мускул. (various references)

Chinese		三头肌. (various references)

Czech		trojhlavý sval, triceps. (various references)

Danish		triceps-brachialgi (triceps brachialgia), caput radiale musculi tricipitis brachii (radial head of triceps brachii muscle), caput mediale musculi tricipitis brachii (medial head of triceps brachii muscle), caput longum musculi tricipitis brachii (long head of triceps brachii muscle), caput laterale musculi tricipitis brachii (lateral head of triceps brachii muscle), bursa subtendinea olecrani (bursa tendon of triceps muscle). (various references)

Dutch		caput mediale van de musculus triceps brachii (medial head of triceps brachii muscle), caput mediale van de driehoofdige armstrekspier (medial head of triceps brachii muscle), caput longum van de musculus triceps brachii (long head of triceps brachii muscle), caput longum van de driehoofdige armstrekspier (long head of triceps brachii muscle), caput laterale van de musculus triceps brachii (lateral head of triceps brachii muscle, radial head of triceps brachii muscle), caput laterale van de driehoofdige armstrekspier (lateral head of triceps brachii muscle, radial head of triceps brachii muscle), bursa subtendinea musculi tricipitis brachii (bursa tendon of triceps muscle). (various references)

French		longue portion du muscle triceps brachial (long head of triceps brachii muscle), chef radial du muscle triceps brachial (lateral head of triceps brachii muscle, radial head of triceps brachii muscle), chef cubital du muscle triceps brachial (medial head of triceps brachii muscle), brachialgie tricipitale (triceps brachialgia), bourse olécrânienne sous-tendineuse (bursa tendon of triceps muscle). (various references)

German		Trizeps. (various references)

Greek		τρικέφαλοσ μύσ. (various references)

Hungarian		triceps (triceps muscle). (various references)

Italian		capo ulnare del muscolo tricipite brachiale (medial head of triceps brachii muscle), capo radiale del muscolo tricipite brachiale (lateral head of triceps brachii muscle, radial head of triceps brachii muscle), capo mediale del muscolo tricipite brachiale (medial head of triceps brachii muscle), capo lungo del muscolo tricipite brachiale (long head of triceps brachii muscle), capo laterale del muscolo tricipite brachiale (lateral head of triceps brachii muscle), borsa sottotendinea dell'olecrano (bursa tendon of triceps muscle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		三� �筋 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さ�"とうき�". (various references)

Korean		삼두근. (various references)

Pig Latin		icepstray

Portuguese		tricípite. (various references)

Russian		трехглавая мышца. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		troglavi mišić. (various references)

Spanish		triceps. (various references)

Swedish		triceps. (various references)

Turkish		üç başlı kas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	triceps. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "triceps": tricepses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Triceps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atriceps, tricep, tricept, Tricomp, tricos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "triceps" (pronounced trī"se'ps)
5	-ī" s e' p s	biceps.
4	-s e' p s	quadriceps.
3	-e' p s	doorsteps, footsteps, sidesteps.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: citers, cripes, esprit, precis, prices, priest, ripest, script, septic, spicer, sprite, steric, stripe, trices, tripes.
	-2 letters: cesti, cires, citer, cites, crept, crest, cries, cripe, crisp, epics, peris, piers, piste, prest, price, pries, prise, recti, rices, ripes, rites, scrip, sepic, speir, spice, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprit, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tiers, tires.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: crepiest, crispate, crispest, cuprites, paretics, picrates, picrites, pictures, piecrust, pitchers, practise, predicts, priciest, prickets, receipts, rescript, scripted, scripter.
	+2 letters: chapiters, chirpiest, crappiest, creepiest, crimpiest, crispiest, croupiest, depicters, depictors, impacters, inceptors, inspector, operatics, outprices, particles, picketers, piecrusts, porticoes, practices, practised, practises, precincts, precisest, prentices, prescient, prescript, prickiest, reinspect, rescripts, sceptring, scripters, scripture, spermatic, sphincter, spruciest, supercity, tricepses.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
triceps	133	anatomy triceps	3
triceps exercise	32	triceps brachii	3
biceps and triceps	15	stretch triceps	3
triceps workout	8	triceps training	3
hard triceps	7	surae triceps	3
triceps work	6	build triceps	2
toning triceps	6	extension lying triceps	2
triceps extension	6	biceps triceps y	2
big triceps	5	exercise flabby triceps	2
bigger triceps	5	huge triceps	2
triceps bar	4	triceps working	2
gallery triceps	4	best exercise triceps	2
building triceps	4	dip triceps	2
biceps exercise triceps	4	ejercicios para triceps	2
biceps de ejercicios triceps y	4	kickbacks triceps	2
pushdowns triceps	3	reflex triceps	2
muscle triceps	3	triceps workouts	2
triceps excercises	3	picture triceps	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Triceps

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Triceps

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