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Latin
Etymology
From triārius (“a veteran hoplite”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Triārius m sg (genitive Triāriī or Triārī); second declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Gaius Valerius Triarius, a Roman praetor
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Triarius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Triarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.