Trinitarian

Trinitarian

See also: trinitarian

English

Alternative forms

• trinitarian

Etymology

From French trinitaire (from Medieval Latin trinitarius, from Latin trinitas + -arius) +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Trinitarian (plural Trinitarians)

1. Someone who believes in the Trinity, the three persons of the Godhead.
2. A member of the Trinitarian order.

Translations

a believer in the Trinity

Finnish: kolminaisuusopin kannattaja German: Trinitarier m, Trinitarierin f Icelandic: þrenningarjátandi m

Adjective

Trinitarian (not comparable)

1. Believing in the Trinity.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     It was no less than whether the psychic movement in Britain was destined to take a Unitarian or a Trinitarian course.

2. Of or pertaining to the Trinity (the three persons of the Godhead) or to the doctrine of Trinity.
3. (uncommon) Of or pertaining to a trinity, a group of three (almost exclusively when compared to the Christian Trinity).
   • 1916, The North American Review, page 400:

     In polytheism we find also a tendency to a trinitarian grouping of gods, and in each threefold group one god who was at least primus inter pares.

   • 1985, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Alan of Lille's Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Grammar to a Twelfth-century Intellectual, Medieval Academy of Amer, page 44:

     See PL 210.54C and James J. Sheridan's stimulating observations on the Trinitarian grouping of Nature, Genius, and Truth (in his note on p. 218).

   • a. 1977, Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi, Allah, The Unique Name of God, A.A.I.I.L. (U.K.) (→ISBN), page 47:

     It is in Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics: […]

     In Indian religion, e.g., we meet with the trinitarian group of Brahmā, Śiva, and Viṣṇu, and in Egyptian religion with the trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis, and Horus,

   • 2010, Ebrahim Kazim, Scientific Commentary of Suratul Faateḥah, Pharos Media & Publishing, →ISBN:

     […] The ancient Egyptians believed in the Trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis and Horus while the Hindus had Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, and the later Christians described God as God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

   • 2013, Hyo-Dong Lee, Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude: A Comparative Theology for the Democracy of Creation, Fordham Univ Press, →ISBN:

     […] singularity is transformed into the trinitarian triad of abstract unity (universality), differentiation (particularity and finite singularity), and return (infinite singularity),

Antonyms

• antitrinitarian
• nontrinitarian

Translations

believing in the Trinity

Chinese: (Simplified Chinese) 相信三位一体 (Traditional Chinese) 相信三位一體 (xiangxin sanweiyiti) Czech: trinitární, trojiční Dutch: drievuldigheidachtig Finnish: trinitaarinen French: trinitaire (fr) German: trinitarisch (de) Italian: trinitario (it) Japanese: 三位一体の (さんみいったいの sanmeittai no) Spanish: trinitario (es)

of or pertaining to the doctrine of the Trinity

Czech: trinitární, trinitologický Finnish: kolminaisuusopillinen, trinitaarinen German: trinitarisch (de)

of or pertaining to the Trinity

Czech: trojický, trojiční Finnish: kolminainen, kolmiyhteinen German: trinitarisch (de)