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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τρι- (tri-) + -άς (-ás).
First use in the Christian theological sense dates back to the second century AD, predating Latin trinitas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tri.ás/ → /triˈas/ → /triˈas/
Noun
τρῐᾰ́ς • (triás) f (genitive τρῐᾰ́δος); third declension
- the number three
428 BCE – 347 BCE,
Plato,
Phaedo 104a:
- ἀλλ’ ὅμως οὕτως πέφυκε καὶ ἡ τριὰς καὶ ἡ πεμπτὰς καὶ ὁ ἥμισυς τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ ἅπας
- all’ hómōs hoútōs péphuke kaì hē triàs kaì hē pemptàs kaì ho hḗmisus toû arithmoû hápas
- Yet the number three and the number five and half the numbers in general are so constituted.
- a group of three; triad
371 BCE – 287 BCE,
Theophrastus,
On Winds 49:
- τελευτᾷ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τριάδι
- teleutâi en têi prṓtēi triádi
- (prosody) system of three strophes
- (Christianity) Trinity
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “τριάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τριάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τριάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.