trifinium

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tri- (“three(fold)”) +‎ fīnis (“limit, boundary”).

Noun[edit]

trifīnium n (genitive trifīniī or trifīnī); second declension

  1. a place where three boundaries meet

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trifīnium trifīnia
Genitive trifīniī
trifīnī1 		trifīniōrum
Dative trifīniō trifīniīs
Accusative trifīnium trifīnia
Ablative trifīniō trifīniīs
Vocative trifīnium trifīnia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants[edit]

  • Catalan: trifini
  • Spanish: trifinio

References[edit]

  • “trifinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • trifinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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