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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρῐήρης (triḗrēs).
Pronunciation
Adjective
triēris (neuter triēre); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (nautical) Having three banks of oars (as on a trireme)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
References
- “trieris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trieris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- trieris 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)
- trieris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.