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bicep

The origin and history of bicep.

Etymology

A back-formation from "biceps" — in Latin, biceps is already singular ("two-headed"), but English speakers reinterpreted the final "-s" as a plural marker and invented "bicep" as the singular.

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Etymology from freedict-original, original.