triens

English

Etymology

From Latin triēns.

Noun

triens (plural trientes)

1. A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic valued at 4 unciae.

Anagrams

• inerts, estrin, Strine, sinter, retins, nitres, inters, Tiners, niters, Estrin, trines, insert, Insert, Trines, terins, Stiner

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  2	III 3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: trēs     Ordinal: tertius     Adverbial: ter     Proportional: triplus     Multiplier: triplex     Distributive: ternus, trīnus     Collective: terniō     Fractional: triēns

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ens/, [ˈt̪riẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ens/, [ˈt̪riːens]

Noun

triēns m (genitive trientis); third declension

1. third (part of something)
2. triens

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	triēns	trientēs
Genitive	trientis	trientium
Dative	trientī	trientibus
Accusative	trientem	trientēs trientīs
Ablative	triente	trientibus
Vocative	triēns	trientēs

References

• “triens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• triens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 4 per cent: trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)
    
  • the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent: fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
    
• “triens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “triens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin