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Latin
Etymology
Possible contraction of *trihiemus, from trēs + hiems.
Pronunciation
Adjective
trīmus (feminine trīma, neuter trīmum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) three years
- three-year-old
c. 211 BCE,
Plautus,
Rudens 3.4.38–40:
- DAEMONĒS. Opsecrō, dēfende cīvēs tuās, senex. LABRĀX. Ō fīlia
mea, cum hanc videō, meārum mē absēns miseriārum commonēs;
trīma quae periit mihi, iam tanta esset, sī vīvit, sciō.- DAEMONES. Prithee, defend your countrywomen, old man. LABRAX. Oh daughter
of mine, when I look on her, separated from me you remind me of my miseries;
she who was lost by me when three years old, now, if she is living, she's just about as tall, I know.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “trimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- trimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.