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6-letter words (1 found)

BICEPS,

5-letter words (5 found)

BICEP,BICES,EPICS,SEPIC,SPICE,

4-letter words (15 found)

BICE,BISE,CEPS,EPIC,ICES,PECS,PICE,PICS,PIES,PISE,SICE,SIPE,SPEC,SPIC,SPIE,

3-letter words (16 found)

BES,BIS,CEP,CIS,ICE,PEC,PES,PIC,PIE,PIS,PSI,SEC,SEI,SIB,SIC,SIP,

2-letter words (7 found)

BE,BI,ES,IS,PE,PI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of biceps

biceps

Etymology

From Latin biceps (“double-headed, two peaked”), from bis (“double”) + caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪ.sɛps/

Noun

biceps (plural biceps or bicepses)

  1. (anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
  2. Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
  3. (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
  4. (prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)

Usage notes

  • Now often mistaken as a plural form; see bicep. An archaic plural bicipites, borrowed from the Latin, also exists.

Synonyms

  • (the biceps brachii): biceps brachii, biceps cubiti
  • (the upper arm): guns, pipes, pythons, upper arm

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "prosody"): princeps

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biceps (“two-headed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.sɛps/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧ceps
  • Rhymes: -isɛps

Noun

biceps m (plural bicepsen, diminutive bicepsje n)

  1. (anatomy) biceps; any two-headed muscle
  2. the biceps brachii

Synonyms

  • (biceps brachii): armbuigspier, elleboogbuiger, spierbal

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: biseps

See also

  • tweekoppige

French

Etymology

From Latin biceps (“double-headed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bi.sɛps/

Noun

biceps m (plural biceps)

  1. (anatomy) biceps (any two-headed muscle)
  2. the biceps brachii

Derived terms

  • avoir du biceps
  • biceps brachial
  • biceps crural
  • biceps fémoral

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

  • bicapitēs
  • bicipēs

Etymology

From bis (“twice”) +‎ -ceps (“headed”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.keps/, [ˈbɪkɛps̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈbiːt͡ʃeps]

Adjective

biceps (genitive bicipitis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. double-headed, having two heads
  2. (of mountains) having two summits or peaks
  3. (of swords) double-edged
  4. (by extension) divided into two parts

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Synonyms

  • (double-headed): anceps

Related terms

  • anceps
  • caput
  • centiceps
  • triceps

Descendants

References

  • “biceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “biceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bizeps. First attested in 1810.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.t͡sɛps/
  • Rhymes: -it͡sɛps
  • Syllabification: bi‧ceps

Noun

biceps m inan

  1. biceps brachii
    Synonyms: bicek, buła
    prężyć bicepsy ― to flex one's biceps

Declension

References

Further reading

  • biceps in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • biceps in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French biceps, from Latin biceps (“two-headed”).

Noun

biceps m (plural bicepși)

  1. biceps; any two-headed muscle
  2. the biceps brachii

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin biceps (“two-headed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǐt͡seps/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧ceps

Noun

bìceps m (Cyrillic spelling бѝцепс)

  1. biceps

Declension

References

  • “biceps” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Source: wiktionary.org