Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Triceps

Triceps , noun

[New Latin, from Latin triceps, having three beads; tres, tria, three + caput head: compare French triceps. See Three, and Chief.]

(Anatomy) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.