Where does “treble” come from?

Treble comes from Old French treble, meaning triple or threefold, derived from Latin triplus, which combined Latin tres meaning three with a suffix denoting multiplication.

treble (English): Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part...

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part...

Ancestry of “treble”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtrebletreble; triple
2Latintriplusthreefold, triple
3Proto-Italic*triplosthreefold, triple

Words derived from “treble

Every word from Proto-Italic *triplos