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English
Etymology
From Latin triēns.
Noun
triens (plural trientes)
- A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic valued at 4 unciae.
Anagrams
- Insert, Stiner, Strine, Tiners, estrin, inerts, insert, inters, niters, nitres, sinter, terins, trines
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
triēns m (genitive trientis); third declension
- third (part of something)
- triens
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- “triens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “triens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- triens 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)
- triens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- 4 per cent: trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)
- the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent: fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
- “triens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “triens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin