triplicity

English

Etymology

From triplic(ate) +‎ -ity, from Latin triplicitas, from Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪˈplɪsɪti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsɪti

Noun

triplicity (countable and uncountable, plural triplicities)

1. The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:

     In their trinall triplicities on hye

2. (astrology) The division of the twelve signs according to the four elements.
   • 1693, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The Third Book (originally by François Rabelais) Chapter 25

     he very promptly and speedily formed and fashioned a complete fabric of the houses of heaven in all their parts, whereof when he had considered the situation and the aspects in their triplicities, he fetched a deep sigh, and said: I have clearly enough already discovered unto you the fate of your cuckoldry, which is unavoidable, you cannot escape it.

Translations

state of being threefold

• French: triplicité (fr) f
• German: Triplizität (de) f, Dreifaltigkeit (de) f, Dreiergruppe (de) f, Dreifachheit f, Dreiheit f
• Latin: triplicitās f