triplicity

English

Etymology

From Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.

Noun

triplicity (countable and uncountable, plural triplicities)

The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
- Edmund Spenser
  in their trinal triplicities on high
(astrology) The division of the signs according to the number of the elements.

Translations

state of being threefold

French: triplicité (fr) f
German: Triplizität (de) f, Dreifaltigkeit (de) f

Latin: triplicitās f

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