trifinium

Latin

Etymology

From tri- (“three(fold)”) +‎ fīnis (“limit, boundary”).

Noun

trifīnium n (genitive trifīniī or trifīnī); second declension

1. a place where three boundaries meet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trifīnium	trifīnia
Genitive	trifīniī trifīnī1	trifīniōrum
Dative	trifīniō	trifīniīs
Accusative	trifīnium	trifīnia
Ablative	trifīniō	trifīniīs
Vocative	trifīnium	trifīnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: trifini
• Spanish: trifinio

References

• “trifinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trifinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.