Triarius

See also: triarius

Latin

Etymology

From triārius (“a veteran hoplite”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triˈaː.ri.us/, [t̪riˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈa.ri.us/, [t̪riˈäːrius]

Proper noun

Triārius m sg (genitive Triāriī or Triārī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gaius Valerius Triarius, a Roman praetor

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Triārius
genitive	Triāriī Triārī1
dative	Triāriō
accusative	Triārium
ablative	Triāriō
vocative	Triārī

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

References

• “Triarius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Triarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.