trine
See also: Trine, triné, and trinë
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɹaɪn/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology 1
From Middle English trine, from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
Adjective
trine (not comparable)
- Triple; threefold.
- (astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection ii:
- The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]
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Synonyms
- (triple; threefold): tern, treble; see also Thesaurus:triple
Noun
trine (plural trines)
- A group of three things.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, OCLC 1000396166:
- a single trine of brazen tortoises
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- (astrology) An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
Synonyms
- (a group of three things): threesome, triad; see also Thesaurus:trio
Verb
trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)
- (transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
- 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
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- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
- 1612, Dekker, Thomas, Lantern and Candlelight:
- Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
- 1988, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Our Country's Good, Act 2, Scene 1:
- Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English trynen, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”); compare Old Swedish trina (“to go”).
Verb
trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To go.
- 1647, Fletcher, John, Beggars' Bush, published 1706, Act 3, Scene 3, page 42:
- Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.
- 1673, Head, Richard, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy:
- From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.
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Anagrams
- -retin, -retin-, Inter, Terni, Tiner, inert, inter, inter-, n-tier, niter, nitre, riten., terin
Caló
Numeral
trine
- Alternative form of trin (“three”)
References
- “trine” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
Italian
Noun
trine f
- plural of trina
Anagrams
- Inter, Terni, entri, inter-, terni, treni
Latin
Adjective
trīne
- vocative masculine singular of trīnus
References
- trine 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)
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
Alternative forms
- tryne
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtriːn(ə)/
Adjective
trine
- trine, triple
Related terms
- trinite
Descendants
- English: trine
References
- “trīne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Verb
trine
- Alternative form of trynen
Portuguese
Verb
trine
- inflection of trinar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
trine
- inflection of trinar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative