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trip⋅tych

  [trip-tik]
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–noun
1. Fine Arts. a set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures, carvings, or the like.
2. a hinged, three-leaved tablet, written on, in ancient times, with a stylus.
Origin:
1725–35; < Gk tríptychos of three plates, equiv. to tri- tri- + ptych- (s. of ptýx) plate + -os adj. suffix
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trip·tych   (trĭp'tĭk)   
n.  

  1. A work consisting of three painted or carved panels that are hinged together.

  2. A hinged writing tablet consisting of three leaves, used in ancient Rome.


[From Greek triptukhos, threefold : tri-, tri- + ptux, ptukh-, fold.]
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Word Origin & History

triptych 
1731, "hinged, three-leaved writing tablet used in ancient Greece and Rome," from Gk. triptykhos "three-layered," from tri- "three" + ptykhos, gen. of ptyx "fold, layer." In ref. to three-part altar-piece carvings or pictures hinged together, it is attested from 1849.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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