triens

English

Etymology

From Latin triēns.

Noun

triens (plural trientes)

  1. A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic valued at 4 unciae.

Anagrams

Latin

Latin numbers (edit)
[a], [b]   2 III
3
4   [a], [b]
    Cardinal: trēs
    Ordinal: tertius
    Adverbial: ter
    Multiplier: triplex, triplus
    Distributive: ternus, trīnus
    Collective: terniō
    Fractional: triēns

Pronunciation

Noun

triēns m (genitive trientis); third declension

  1. third (part of something)
  2. triens

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative triēns trientēs
Genitive trientis trientium
Dative trientī trientibus
Accusative trientem trientēs
trientīs
Ablative triente trientibus
Vocative triēns trientēs

References

  • triens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • triens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • triens 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)
  • triens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • 4 per cent: trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)
    • the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent: fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
  • triens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • triens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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