simplex
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin simplex (“simple”).
In the mathematical sense, apparently first used (in German) in 1902, Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Mehrdimensionale Geometrie[1], where Schoute first suggests the term Simplicissimum, but then from the next page decides to use simplex "for short".[1] In his pioneering works on algebraic topology, Henri Poincaré had previously introduced the concept, but not the actual term simplex.
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Adjective[edit]
simplex (not comparable)
- Single, simple; not complex.
- (telecommunications) Unidirectional.
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Noun[edit]
simplex (plural simplexes or simplices or simplicia)
- (geometry, algebraic topology) An analogue in a space of arbitrary dimensionality of the triangle or tetrahedron; the convex hull of n+1 linearly independent points in n-dimensional space; in other words, the triangle, tetrahedron etc., generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- (linguistics) A monomorphemic word, one without affixes.
- “-ology” is usually a suffix, but it can be used on its own as a simplex as well.
- 1978, Helga Harries-Delisle, “Contrastive Emphasis and Cleft Sentences”, in Universals of Human Language, edited by Joseph H. Greenberg, →ISBN, page 460:
- The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject.
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Latin[edit]
10[a], [b], [c], [d] | ||||
I 1 |
2 → [a], [b] | 10 → [a], [b], [c], [d] | ||
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Cardinal: ūnus Ordinal: prīmus Adverbial: semel Multiplier: simplex, simplus Distributive: singulus Collective: ūniō Fractional: integer |
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *sempleks, from the same root as semel + -plex.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsim.pleks/, [ˈs̠ɪmpɫ̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsim.pleks/, [ˈsimpleks]
Adjective[edit]
simplex (genitive simplicis, comparative simplicior, superlative simplicissimus, adverb simpliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- single
- simple, plain, uncompounded
- pure, unmixed
- sincere, naive, frank, open, without guile, guileless, unsuspecting
Declension[edit]
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | simplex | simplicēs | simplicia | ||
Genitive | simplicis | simplicium | |||
Dative | simplicī | simplicibus | |||
Accusative | simplicem | simplex | simplicēs | simplicia | |
Ablative | simplicī | simplicibus | |||
Vocative | simplex | simplicēs | simplicia |
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- Old Leonese:
- Mirandese: simples
- Old Galician-Portuguese: simplez
- → Asturian: simple
- → Catalan: simple
- → Dutch: simpel
- → English: simplex
- → Friulian: sempliç
- → Galician: simple
- → German: simpel
- → Norwegian: simpel
- → Italian: semplice
- → Middle Low German: simpel
- → Old French: simple, sinple
- → Romansch: simpel, sempel
- Sicilian: sìmprici, sìmplici
- → Spanish: simple
- > Chavacano: simple (inherited)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *sɨml
References[edit]
- “simplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “simplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- simplex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- simplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
simplex n (uncountable)
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singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) simplex | simplexul |
genitive/dative | (unui) simplex | simplexului |
vocative | simplexule |
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