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English
Noun
triarii
- plural of triarius
Latin
Etymology
From tri- (“three”) + -āriī (plural of -ārius, forming agent nouns).
Noun
triāriī m pl (genitive triāriōrum); second declension
- (military, plural only) the third line in the Roman Army (after, respectively, the prī̆ncipēs and the hastātī)
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “triarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “triarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- triarii in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “triarii”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “triarii”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin