triforium

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin triforium, from tria (“three”) + for (“opening”) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪ̯ˈfɔːɹɪəm/

Noun

triforium (plural triforia or triforiums)

1. (architecture) The gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.

Translations

gallery of arches

• Belarusian: трыфорыум (tryfóryum), трыфорый (tryfóryj)
• Catalan: trifori m
• Dutch: triforium (nl) n
• Finnish: triforio
• French: triforium (fr) m
• German: Triforium (de) n
• Italian: triforio (it) m
• Spanish: triforio (es) m
• Ukrainian: трифо́рій m (tryfórij)
• Welsh: llofft dywyll f

See also

• clerestory

French

Noun

triforium m (plural triforiums)

1. triforium

Further reading

• “triforium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triˈfo.ri.um/, [t̪rɪˈfɔriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈfo.ri.um/, [t̪riˈfɔːrium]

Noun

triforium n (genitive triforiī or triforī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin, architecture) triforium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	triforium	triforia
Genitive	triforiī triforī1	triforiōrum
Dative	triforiō	triforiīs
Accusative	triforium	triforia
Ablative	triforiō	triforiīs
Vocative	triforium	triforia

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

Descendants

• → English: triforium
• → Italian: triforio
• → Norwegian Bokmål: triforium
• → Spanish: triforio

References

• triforium 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)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

triforium n (definite singular triforiet, indefinite plural triforier, definite plural triforia or triforiene)

1. (architecture) triforium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

triforium n (definite singular triforiet, indefinite plural triforium, definite plural triforia)

1. (architecture) triforium