trinal
English
Alternative forms
- trinall (obsolete)
Etymology
From the Medieval Latin trīnālis.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹaɪnəl/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌɪnəl/, [ˈtɹʌɪn̩l]
- Rhymes: -aɪnəl
Adjective
trinal (not comparable)
- (now rare) Having three parts; triple.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza XXXIX, page 181:
- Like as it had bene many an Angels voice, // Singing before th’ eternall maiesty, // In their trinall triplicities on hye.
- 1941, Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, Google Books
- The trinal division of body, mind and soul becomes a unity, a holy trinity. And with it the realization that one aspect of our nature cannot be exalted above another...
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Translations
having three parts, triple — see tripartite
Anagrams
- ratlin