trimus

Possible contraction of *trihiemus, from trēs + hiems.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtriː.mus/, [ˈt̪riːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.mus/, [ˈt̪riːmus]

trīmus (feminine trīma, neuter trīmum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) three years
2. three-year-old
   • c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 3.4.38–40:

     DAEMONĒS. Opsecrō, dēfende cīvēs tuās, senex. LABRĀX. Ō fīlia
     mea, cum hanc videō, meārum mē absēns miseriārum commonēs;
     trīma quae periit mihi, iam tanta esset, sī vīvit, sciō.

     DAEMONES. Prithee, defend your countrywomen, old man. LABRAX. Oh daughter
     of mine, when I look on her, separated from me you remind me of my miseries;
     she who was lost by me when three years old, now, if she is living, she's just about as tall, I know.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (three-year-old): triennis

• trīmātus
• trīmulus

• bīmus
• quadrīmus

• “trimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.