Noun: treble
| Singular | treble |
| Plural | trebles |
Sample Sentences
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He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave. [1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:]
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The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble. [1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:]
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The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above. [2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:]
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As for City, a domestic treble is off the cards and they must haul themselves off the floor quickly with the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona on Wednesday. [2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like treble
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *tréyes
3. From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple. See: Middle English Nouns '
treble', Latin Nouns '
triplus'.
Verbs referencing "treble"
German Nouns
Triple.