triario

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin triārius.

Noun

triario m (plural triarios)

1. (military of Ancient Rome) triarius
   • 1878, Cesare Cantù, Historia universal, 8‎^[1], page 43:

     De estos, quatrocientos eran astados, novecientos príncipes, novecientos triarios, ó lo que es lo mismo, dos mil doscientos de tropa de linea, ademas de doscientos astados y novecientos rorarios armados á la ligera, […]

     Of these, four hundred were hastati, nine hundred princes, nine hundred triarii, or equivalent, two-thousand two hundred line troops, as well as two hundred hastati and nine hundred lightly armed rorarios […]

Further reading

• “triario”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• triario on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es