triens
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
triens (plural trientes)
- A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic valued at 4 unciae.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
[a], [b] ← 2 | III 3 |
4 → [a], [b] |
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Cardinal: trēs Ordinal: tertius Adverbial: ter Multiplier: triplex, triplus Distributive: ternus, trīnus Collective: terniō Fractional: triēns |
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.ens/, [ˈt̪riẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtri.ens/, [ˈt̪riːens]
Noun edit
triēns m (genitive trientis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | triēns | trientēs |
Genitive | trientis | trientium |
Dative | trientī | trientibus |
Accusative | trientem | trientēs trientīs |
Ablative | triente | trientibus |
Vocative | triēns | trientēs |
References edit
- “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[1], 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)
- 4 per cent: trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)
- “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