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English
Etymology
From Latin tergeminus, from ter (“thrice”) + geminus (“doubled at birth, twin-born”). Compare trigeminous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tergeminous (not comparable)
- Threefold.
1823, James Hogg, “Peril Second. Leasing. Circle II.”, in The Three Perils of Woman; or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy. , volume III, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, , →OCLC, page 100:My servant-maid has discovered tergeminous proof of the perpetrator.
1851, “Lines in commemoration of the Auld Brig”, in Competing and Other Poems on the Auld Brig, page 4:I've often viewed in early life's bright dream, Thy arch tergeminous which spanned the stream; Upon the rocks greywacke oft I've stood, And upward scanned thy classic pulchritude.
1861 March, “Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, in Calcutta Review, volume 36, page v:The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.
1906, William Cowper Brann, Brann, the Iconoclast, page 451:Chappies like Junius Henri, whose sidewheel whiskers and tergeminous titles are giving them spinal curvature, may fancy hysterical maids; but a sure-enough American, competent to raise a crop of world-compellers all bearing his trade-mark, prefers a Grace Darling or a Molly Pitcher.