trico

See also: trico- and tricô

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.ko]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin trīcae

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō

Latin trīcō

From trīcae (“trifles, trumpery”) + -ō.

Noun

trīcō m (genitive trīcōnis); third declension

1. mischiefmaker, shuffler, trickster

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trīcō	trīcōnēs
genitive	trīcōnis	trīcōnum
dative	trīcōnī	trīcōnibus
accusative	trīcōnem	trīcōnēs
ablative	trīcōne	trīcōnibus
vocative	trīcō	trīcōnēs

Etymology 2

Reshaping as an active verb of trīcor.

Verb

trīcō (present infinitive trīcāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. (Late Latin) synonym of trīcor

Conjugation

   Conjugation of trīcō (first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	trīcō		trīcās		trīcat		trīcāmus		trīcātis		trīcant
	imperfect	trīcābam		trīcābās		trīcābat		trīcābāmus		trīcābātis		trīcābant
	future	trīcābō		trīcābis		trīcābit		trīcābimus		trīcābitis		trīcābunt
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	trīcem		trīcēs		trīcet		trīcēmus		trīcētis		trīcent
	imperfect	trīcārem		trīcārēs		trīcāret		trīcārēmus		trīcārētis		trīcārent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		trīcā		—		—		trīcāte		—
	future	—		trīcātō		trīcātō		—		trīcātōte		trīcantō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		trīcāre			—			trīcāns			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		trīcandī		trīcandō		trīcandum		trīcandō		—		—

Descendants

• Italian: treccare (← Vulgar Latin *triccāre)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *trigad
  • Breton: trega, trigia
  • Middle Cornish: trege, trega, tryga, tryge
    • Cornish: triga
  • Old Welsh: tricet
    • Middle Welsh: tricyaw
      • Welsh: trigo

References

• “trico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "trico", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “trico”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Noun

trico n (plural tricouri)

1. alternative form of tricou

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	trico	tricoul	tricouri	tricourile
genitive-dative	trico	tricoului	tricouri	tricourilor
vocative	tricoule		tricourilor

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

trico (Cyrillic spelling трицо)

1. vocative singular of trica