τριάς
See also: -τριας
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From τρι- (tri-) + -άς (-ás). First use in the Christian theological sense dates back to the second century AD, predating Latin trinitas.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tri.ás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /triˈas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /triˈas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /triˈas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /triˈas/
Noun edit
τρῐᾰ́ς • (triás) f (genitive τρῐᾰ́δος); third declension
- the number three
- a group of three; triad
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Winds 49:
- τελευτᾷ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τριάδι
- teleutâi en têi prṓtēi triádi
- τελευτᾷ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τριάδι
- (prosody) system of three strophes
- Hephaestio, Collected Works 61C
- (Christianity) Trinity
- 534 CE, Codex Justinianus 1.1.5.2
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τρῐᾰ́ς hē triás | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τρῐᾰ́δος tês triádos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τρῐᾰ́δῐ têi triádi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τρῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn triáda | ||||||||||||
Vocative | τρῐᾰ́ς triás | ||||||||||||
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References edit
- “τριάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τριάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τριάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.