triga

See also: TRIGA and trigà

English

Etymology

From Latin triga, a contraction of ter or tri- (“thrice”) + iuga (“yoked”).

Noun

triga (plural trigas or trigae)

1. (historical) A three-horse chariot used by the Ancient Romans.

Related terms

• biga, quadriga

Anagrams

• tragi

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Catalan

Verb

triga

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Galician

Adjective

triga f sg

1. feminine singular of trigo

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Latin

Etymology

A contraction of ter or tri- (“thrice”) + iuga (“yoked”).

Noun

trīga f (genitive trīgae); first declension

1. (historical) A triga: a three-horse chariot during Roman times.
2. (figuratively) A trio: a set of three things bound together.
   • 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum Triga

     Augsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trīga	trīgae
Genitive	trīgae	trīgārum
Dative	trīgae	trīgīs
Accusative	trīgam	trīgās
Ablative	trīgā	trīgīs
Vocative	trīga	trīgae

Related terms

• biga, quadriga

Descendants

• (English): triga

References

• “triga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• triga 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)
• triga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “triga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers