trifolium
See also: Trifolium
English edit
Etymology edit
From the genus name.
Noun edit
trifolium (plural trifoliums or trifolia)
- (botany) Any of the genus Trifolium of clovers and trefoils.
- 1867, Wilson Flagg, “The Early Wild Flowers”, in The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 155:
- The larger species (Panax quinquefolium) is rather coarse and ordinary in its appearance; the flowers are very nearly like those of the trifolia, but grow in an irregular and elongated cluster.
- 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 441:
- The majority of the trifoliums are native to Europe and Asia. Only comparatively few of the trifoliums native to the United States are of food production significance.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From tria (“three”) + folium (“a leaf”), a calque of Ancient Greek τρίφυλλον (tríphullon).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /triˈfo.li.um/, [t̪rɪˈfɔlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /triˈfo.li.um/, [t̪riˈfɔːlium]
Noun edit
trifolium n (genitive trifoliī or trifolī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | trifolium | trifolia |
Genitive | trifoliī trifolī1 |
trifoliōrum |
Dative | trifoliō | trifoliīs |
Accusative | trifolium | trifolia |
Ablative | trifoliō | trifoliīs |
Vocative | trifolium | trifolia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Descendants edit
- Albanian: tërfil, tërfojë
- Aragonese: teflas, treflas
- Aromanian: trifoljiu, trifolj, trifiljiu, tãrfoyi.
- Asturian: trébole
- Catalan: trèvol
- → Spanish: trébol
- English: trefoil
- Esperanto: trifolio
- French: trèfle
- Friulian: cerfoi
- Galician: trevo
- Translingual: Trifolium
- Ido: trifolio
- Italian: trifoglio
- Old French: trefeuil
- Occitan: trefuèlh
- Piedmontese: trafeuj, trefeuj
- Portuguese: trevo
- Romanian: trifoi
- Sardinian: tirifozi, tirvozu, travullu, trevúgliu, trivudhu
- Sicilian: trifogghiu
- → Spanish: trifolio
- Venetian: trifògio, strafòjo, strafoi
References edit
- “trifolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- trifolium 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)
- trifolium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.