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Latin
Etymology
Compound of ter (“thrice”) + geminus. Confer the main variant trigeminus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tergeminus (feminine tergemina, neuter tergeminum); first/second-declension adjective
- triplet
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “tergeminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tergeminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tergeminus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tergeminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tergeminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tergeminus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray