trine

See also: Trine, triné, and trinë

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English trine, from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.

Adjective

trine (not comparable)

1. Triple; threefold.
2. (astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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 […]

Synonyms

• (triple; threefold): tern, treble; see also Thesaurus:triple

Noun

trine (plural trines)

1. A group of three things.
   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     a single trine of brazen tortoises

2. (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)

1. (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:

     By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.

2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
   • 1612, Thomas Dekker, Lantern and Candlelight‎^[1]:

     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, Timberlake Wertenbaker, 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.

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)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To go.
   • 1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush‎^[2], 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, Richard Head, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy‎^[3]:

     From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.

Anagrams

• -retin, -retin-, Inter, Terni, Tiner, inert, inter, inter-, n-tier, niter, nitre, riten., terin

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Numeral

trine

1. Alternative form of trin (“three”)

References

• “trine” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.

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Italian

Noun

trine f

1. plural of trina

Anagrams

• Inter, Terni, entri, inter-, terni, treni

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) trīne

1. 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)

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.

Alternative forms

• tryne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtriːn(ə)/

Adjective

trine

1. trine, triple

Related terms

• trinite

Descendants

• English: trine

References

• “trīne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

trine

1. Alternative form of trynen

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Portuguese

Verb

trine

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Spanish

Verb

trine

1. inflection of trinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative