triforium

English

Etymology

From Latin triforium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪ̯ˈfɔːɹɪəm/

Noun

triforium (plural triforia or triforiums)

1. (architecture) The gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.

Translations

gallery of arches

• Belarusian: трыфорыум (tryfóryum), трыфорый (tryfóryj)
• Catalan: trifori m
• Finnish: triforio
• French: triforium (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Triforium (de) n
• Italian: triforio (it) m
• Ukrainian: трифо́рій m (tryfórij)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triˈfo.ri.um/, [t̪rɪˈfɔriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈfo.ri.um/, [t̪riˈfɔːrium]

Noun

triforium n (genitive triforiī or triforī); second declension

1. triforium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	triforium	triforia
Genitive	triforiī triforī1	triforiōrum
Dative	triforiō	triforiīs
Accusative	triforium	triforia
Ablative	triforiō	triforiīs
Vocative	triforium	triforia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → English: triforium
• Italian: triforio
• Spanish: triforio

References

• triforium 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)