Trinacria

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Translingual[edit]

Trinacria ventricosa

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría, having three headlands), from its 3-fold rotational symmetry, giving it the form of a triskelion.

Proper noun[edit]

Trinacria f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the superphylum Heterokonta – various extinct diatoms of the Eocene.

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría, having three headlands).

Proper noun[edit]

Trinacria

  1. (historical) Sicily.
  2. (historical) The Kingdom of Sicily.
  3. The triskeles emblem of Sicily.
    1. (by extension) The flag of Sicily.

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Italian[edit]

La Trinacria

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría).

Proper noun[edit]

Trinacria f

  1. (geography, obsolete) Sicily
    Synonym: Sicilia
  2. the flag of the autonomous region of Sicily
  3. the triskeles emblem of Sicily, which appears on the flag

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría).

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Proper noun[edit]

Trīnacria f sg (genitive Trīnacriae); first declension

  1. An ancient name for Sicily or Sicilia, given its triangular shape and three large coastlines.

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Trīnacria
Genitive Trīnacriae
Dative Trīnacriae
Accusative Trīnacriam
Ablative Trīnacriā
Vocative Trīnacria

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References[edit]

  • Trinacria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Trinacria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette