"biceps" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbaɪ.sɛps/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-biceps.ogg [US] Forms: biceps [plural], bicepses [plural], bicipites [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Proto-Italic *-is Proto-Italic *-kaputis Old Latin -cipesder. Latin -ceps Latin bicepsder. English biceps Derived from Latin biceps (“double-headed, two-peaked”), from bis (“twice”) + -ceps (“headed”). Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:der|la:biceps<t:double-headed, two-peaked>|text=++|tree=+}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Proto-Italic *-is Proto-Italic *-kaputis Old Latin -cipesder. Latin -ceps Latin bicepsder. English biceps [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "double-headed, two-peaked", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "twice", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "twice", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "two", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dwóh₁", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" }, { "keyword_abbrev" : "influ.", "keyword_label" : "Influenced by", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*trís", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "influence" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dwís", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*dwis", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old Latin", "term" : "duis", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-ola" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "bis", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }, { "id" : "headed", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "head", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "head", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "is_uncertain" : true, "id" : "seize", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "is_uncertain" : true, "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "lang_name" : "substrate", "status" : "ok", "children" : [ ], "lang" : "qfa-sub" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*kap-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*kap-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*káput", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*kaput", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-is", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-kaputis", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old Latin", "term" : "-cipes", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-ola" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ceps", "gloss" : "headed", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "biceps", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "biceps", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="biceps"> Derived from Latin biceps (“double-headed, two-peaked”), from bis (“twice”) + -ceps (“headed”). Head templates: {{en-noun|*|+|bicipites}} biceps (plural biceps or bicepses or bicipites)
  1. (anatomy) Any muscle having two heads. Translations (any muscle having two heads): ذَات اَلرَّأْسَيْن (ḏāt ar-raʔsayn) [feminine] (Arabic), ذات الرأسين (zāt er-raʔsēn) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), բիցեպս (bicʻeps) (Armenian), երկգլուխ մկան (erkglux mkan) (Armenian), 二頭肌 /二头肌 (èrtóujī) (Chinese Mandarin), biceps [masculine] (Czech), biceps [masculine] (Dutch), kaksipäinen lihas (Finnish), biceps [masculine] (French), bíceps [masculine] (Galician), ბიცეფსი (bicepsi) (Georgian), Bizeps [masculine] (German), bicepso (Ido), bicipite [masculine] (Italian), 二頭筋 (nitōkin) (alt: にとうきん) (Japanese), 이두근 (idugeun) (Korean), द्विशिरस्का (dviśiraskā) [feminine] (Marathi), uarua (Māori), bíceps (Portuguese), biceps [masculine] (Romanian), би́цепс (bíceps) [masculine] (Russian), bíceps [masculine] (Spanish), daga-dagaan (Tagalog), iki başlı (Turkish)
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  2. Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
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  3. (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm. Tags: informal Synonyms: guns, pipes, pythons Translations (the upper arm, especially the muscles): ذَات اَلرَّأْسَيْن اَلْعَضُدِيَّة (ḏāt ar-raʔsayn al-ʕaḍudiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), باي (bāy) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), armbuigspier [feminine] (Dutch), biceps [masculine] (Dutch), elleboogbuiger [masculine] (Dutch), hauis (Finnish), olkavarsi (Finnish), קִבֹּרֶת (qibóret) [feminine] (Hebrew), lacertus [masculine] (Latin), pazı (Turkish), berbert (Woiwurrung)
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  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).
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: back double biceps, bicep curl, biceps brachii, biceps cubiti, biceps femoris, double biceps, front double biceps, gluteobiceps, rear double biceps Related terms: bicipital, quadriceps, triceps

Inflected forms

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      "word": "bicep curl"
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      "word": "biceps brachii"
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      "word": "biceps cubiti"
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      "word": "biceps femoris"
    },
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      "word": "double biceps"
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      "word": "gluteobiceps"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "ḏāt ar-raʔsayn",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ذَات اَلرَّأْسَيْن"
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      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ذات الرأسين"
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      "code": "hy",
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      "roman": "bicʻeps",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "բիցեպս"
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      "code": "hy",
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      "roman": "erkglux mkan",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "երկգլուխ մկան"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "èrtóujī",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "二頭肌 /二头肌"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "biceps"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "biceps"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "kaksipäinen lihas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "biceps"
    },
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bíceps"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "bicepsi",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "ბიცეფსი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bizeps"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
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      "lang_code": "io",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "bicepso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
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      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bicipite"
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    {
      "alt": "にとうきん",
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "nitōkin",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "二頭筋"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "idugeun",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "이두근"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "uarua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "lang_code": "mr",
      "roman": "dviśiraskā",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "द्विशिरस्का"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "bíceps"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "biceps"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "roman": "bíceps",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "би́цепс"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bíceps"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "daga-dagaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
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      "sense": "any muscle having two heads",
      "word": "iki başlı"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "ḏāt ar-raʔsayn al-ʕaḍudiyya",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ذَات اَلرَّأْسَيْن اَلْعَضُدِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
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      "roman": "bāy",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "باي"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "armbuigspier"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
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      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "elleboogbuiger"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "word": "hauis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "word": "olkavarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "קִבֹּרֶת"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
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      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lacertus"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "word": "pazı"
    },
    {
      "code": "wyi",
      "lang": "Woiwurrung",
      "lang_code": "wyi",
      "sense": "the upper arm, especially the muscles",
      "word": "berbert"
    }
  ],
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}

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