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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *trih₂dḱomth₂}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [triːˈɡɪn.taː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [triˈd͡ʒin.ta]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''trīgintā''' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[inh|ine-pro|*trih₂dḱomth₂|t=thirty]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) It is built on the stem of [[m|la|trēs|t=three]]; the OLD analyses it as ⟨trēs⟩ and ⟨-gintā⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|τριάκοντα|tr=triákonta]] and [[sa|त्रिंशत्|tr=triṃśát]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan gives Plautus as its first author;^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Curculio'' it is a sum of “thirty minas”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is the plain cardinal number thirty, as in Cicero's “when Romulus had reigned thirty-seven years” and Virgil's thirty great circles of the years.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has it unchanged.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of thirty minas.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in ''On the Republic''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Numeral===
+ # [[m|en|thirty|alt=Thirty]], 30.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[trīcennium]]
+ * [[trīciēns]]
+ * [[trīgintāuirī]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[trēs]]
+ * [[trecentī]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}