triceps

trīceps, cĭpĭtis, adj. [tres-caput; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 159].

• Lit., having three heads, triple-headed: Cerberus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10: Hecate (because she was also at the same time Luna and Diana), Ov. M. 7, 194.—*
• II Transf., threefold: historia, Varr. L. L. 5, § 148 Müll.

triceps, cipitis (tres u. caput; vgl. Cic. or. 159 u. Augustin. regul. 502, 40 K.), I) dreiköpfig, Cerberus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 10 u. Augustin. de civ. dei 18, 13: Hecate, Ov. met. 7, 194: Geryones, Fronto ad M. Caes. 4, 3. p. 65, 14 N. – II) übtr., dreifältig, dreierlei, historia, Varro LL. 5, 148.

triceps [CL], three-headed (also transf. or fig.). Fulgentius ‥ per Cerberum eloquentiam figurat ‥. ~eps ‥ est quia habet tres principales disciplinas grammaticam, dialecticam, rethoricam Bern. Comm. Aen. 87; 1168 si ~ipitem canem tibi insidiari ‥ contigerit, eum ‥ studeas demulcere aut Herculea domare clava J. Sal. Ep. 234 (240); Cerberum ~ipitem, quem Plutonis subjiciunt pedibus Alb. Lond. DG 6. 22; ad inferos descendit et Cerberum ~ipitem ‥ abstraxit Deorum Imag. 22; [ecclesiam] ‥ ~ipitem ‥ faciunt Bekinsau 751.

trĭceps, (16) cĭpĭtis (tres, caput), qui a trois têtes : Cic. Tusc. 1, 10 || [fig.] triple : Varro L. 5, 148.

triceps , ipitis. adj.
三首者。三倍者。

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trīceps cipitis, adj.

• tres+caput, with three heads, triple-headed: Cerberus.—Poet.: Hecate, of three forms(as also Luna and Diana), O.