quadriceps

Borrowed from Latin quadriceps, literally “four-headed”, from quadri- +‎ -ceps, from quattuor (“four”) and from caput (“head”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹɪ.sɛps/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɑːd.ɹəˌsɛps/

quadriceps (plural quadricepses or quadriceps)

1. (anatomy) A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.

• quads

• quadricipital

Borrowed from Latin quadriceps, from quadri- +‎ -ceps.

• IPA^(key): /kwa.dʁi.sɛps/, /ka.dʁi.sɛps/

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quadriceps m (plural quadriceps)

1. quadriceps (muscle)

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

From quadri- (“four”) +‎ -ceps (“headed”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷa.drɪ.kɛps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.d̪ri.t͡ʃeps]

quadriceps (genitive quadricipitis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. four-headed, having four heads

Third-declension one-termination adjective.