tricorporate

English

A lion tricorporated or tricorporal.

Etymology

From tri- +‎ corporate.

Adjective

tricorporate (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.

   Synonym: tricorporated

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.
2. (rare) Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”)
   • 1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', page 131:

     Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope […]'

   • 1963, Dietrich Von Bothmer, Attic Black-figured Amphorae:

     Athena wears a belted peplos, a bracelet, a necklace, and a fillet; in her left hand she holds a spear. [...] The tricorporate monster is joined from the hips to the shoulders. One part, on the foremost plane, is dying and turns […]

   • 2015 January 12, A. Bernard Knapp, Peter van Dommelen, The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     [...] attractive suggestion that the famous threeheaded 'Bluebeard' from the Old Temple of Athena (Heberdey 1919: 52–69) on the Acropolis in Athens represents Geryon. Images of a threeheaded, tricorporate warrior first appear in Cyprus in the [...]

Related terms

• bicorporate