triclinium
English
Etymology
Latin trīclīnium, from Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion).
Noun
triclinium (plural tricliniums or triclinia)
- (historical, Roman antiquity) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 259:
- Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;...
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- (historical, Roman antiquity) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for triclinium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Noun
triclinium m (plural trincliniums or triclinia)
- triclinium
Further reading
- “triclinium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion), from τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + κλίνω (klínō, “to lean”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /triːˈkliː.ni.um/, [t̪riːˈklʲiːniʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /triˈkli.ni.um/, [t̪riˈkliːnium]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
trīclīnium n (genitive trīclīniī or trīclīnī); second declension
- dining room, where three couches are laid out for dining around a small serving table.
- a couch for reclining at meal, on which three people may recline.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | trīclīnium | trīclīnia |
| Genitive | trīclīniī trīclīnī1 | trīclīniōrum |
| Dative | trīclīniō | trīclīniīs |
| Accusative | trīclīnium | trīclīnia |
| Ablative | trīclīniō | trīclīniīs |
| Vocative | trīclīnium | trīclīnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- architrīclīnus
- trīclīniarchēs
- trīclīniāria
- trīclīniāris
Descendants
- Italian: triclinio
References
- “triclinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “triclinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- triclinium 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)
- triclinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “triclinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “triclinium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Noun
triclinium n (uncountable)
- Alternative form of tricliniu