triario

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin triārius.

Noun

triario m (plural triarios)

  1. (military of Ancient Rome) triarius
    • 1878, Cesare Cantù, Historia universal, 8, page 43:
      De estos, quatrocientos eran astados, novecientos príncipes, novecientos triarios, ó lo que es lo mismo, dos mil doscientos de tropa de linea, ademas de doscientos astados y novecientos rorarios armados á la ligera, []
      Of these, four hundred were hastati, nine hundred princes, nine hundred triarii, or equivalent, two-thousand two hundred line troops, as well as two hundred hastati and nine hundred lightly armed rorarios

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