trinitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin trīnitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [triˈnitas]
• Hyphenation: tri‧ni‧tas

Noun

trinitas (plural trinitas-trinitas)

1. (Christianity) the Trinity

   Synonym: tritunggal

Alternative forms

• triniti (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “trinitas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Alternative forms

• Trīnitās, ternitās

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tri-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *trís

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *triznos

Latin trīnus

Latin -tās

Latin trīnitās

From trīnus (“triple, threefold”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.nɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.ni.tas]

Noun

trīnitās f (genitive trīnitātis); third declension

1. threeness; the state of being three
2. (post-Classical) a triad
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Trinity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trīnitās	trīnitātēs
genitive	trīnitātis	trīnitātum
dative	trīnitātī	trīnitātibus
accusative	trīnitātem	trīnitātēs
ablative	trīnitāte	trīnitātibus
vocative	trīnitās	trīnitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: trinitat, Trinitat
• English: trinity, Trinity
• French: trinité, Trinité
• German: Trinität
• Italian: trinità, Trinità
• Interlingua: trinitate, Trinitate
• Luxembourgish: Trinitéit
• Old Galician-Portuguese: trĩidade, Trĩindade
  • Galician: trindade, Trindade
  • Portuguese: trindade, Trindade
• Romanian: trinitate, Trinitate
• Spanish: trinidad, Trinidad
• Proto-Brythonic: *trindọd (see there for further descendants)

References

• “trinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "trinitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “trinitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.