tricies

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Latin

Latin numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c] ←  20 XXX
30
40  → [a], [b]
3
    Cardinal: trīgintā
    Ordinal: trīcēsimus
    Adverbial: trīciēns, trīciēs
    Distributive: trīcēnus

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an earlier form of trīgintā (thirty) + -iēs. Compare Ancient Greek τριάκοντα (triákonta) and Sanskrit त्रिंशत् (triṃśát), from Proto-Indo-European *tri(d)ḱomt (thirty).

Adverb

trīciēs (not comparable)

  1. thirty times

Derived terms

References

  • tricies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tricies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.