trifinium

Latin

Etymology

From tri- (“three(fold)”) +‎ fīnis (“limit, boundary”).

Noun

trifīnium n (genitive trifīniī or trifīnī); second declension

1. a place where three boundaries meet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	trifīnium	trifīnia
genitive	trifīniī trifīnī1	trifīniōrum
dative	trifīniō	trifīniīs
accusative	trifīnium	trifīnia
ablative	trifīniō	trifīniīs
vocative	trifīnium	trifīnia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: trifini
• Spanish: trifinio

References

• “trifinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trifinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.