trimulus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtriː.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪riːmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪riːmulus]

Adjective

trīmulus (feminine trīmula, neuter trīmulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of trīmus (“three-year-old”)
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 6 6:

     Trīmulus patrem āmīsit; cuius ex parte tertiā hērēs, nē hanc quidem integram cēpit correptīs per cohēredem Gāium ūnīversīs bonīs.

     • 1889 translation by Alexander Thomson

       He lost his father when he was three years old, being left heir to a third part of his estate; of which he never got possession, the whole being seized by his co-heir, Caius.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	trīmulus	trīmula	trīmulum		trīmulī	trīmulae	trīmula
genitive	trīmulī	trīmulae	trīmulī		trīmulōrum	trīmulārum	trīmulōrum
dative	trīmulō	trīmulae	trīmulō		trīmulīs
accusative	trīmulum	trīmulam	trīmulum		trīmulōs	trīmulās	trīmula
ablative	trīmulō	trīmulā	trīmulō		trīmulīs
vocative	trīmule	trīmula	trīmulum		trīmulī	trīmulae	trīmula

Synonyms

• triennis
• trīmus

References

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