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Trinacria

See also: trinacria

Translingual edit

 
†Trinacria ventricosa

Etymology edit

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría, “having three headlands”), from its 3-fold rotational symmetry, giving it the form of a triskelion.

Proper noun edit

†Trinacria f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the superphylum Heterokonta – various extinct diatoms of the Eocene.

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English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría, “having three headlands”).

Proper noun edit

Trinacria

  1. (historical) Sicily.
  2. (historical) The Kingdom of Sicily.
  3. The triskeles emblem of Sicily.
    1. (by extension) The flag of Sicily.

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Italian edit

 
La Trinacria

Etymology edit

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría).

Proper noun edit

Trinacria f

  1. (geography, obsolete) Sicily
    Synonym: Sicilia
  2. the flag of the autonomous region of Sicily
  3. the triskeles emblem of Sicily, which appears on the flag

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría).

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Proper noun edit

Trīnacria f sg (genitive Trīnacriae); first declension

  1. An ancient name for Sicily or Sicilia, given its triangular shape and three large coastlines.

Declension edit

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Trīnacria
Genitive Trīnacriae
Dative Trīnacriae
Accusative Trīnacriam
Ablative Trīnacriā
Vocative Trīnacria

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  • “Trinacria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Trinacria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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