triduum Latin · revision 31338

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *treies, ine-pro *di-eu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtriː.du.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtriː.du.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trīduum''' ''n'' (genitive trīduī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|tri-|t=three]] and a stem ⟨*-duom⟩ from the root of [[m|la|diēs|t=day]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary gives [[itc-pro|*trizdiwom]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives ⟨trēs⟩ from [[ine-pro|*treies|t=three]], with ⟨tri-⟩ in compounds, and ⟨diēs⟩ from [[ine-pro|*di-eu-|t=clear sky]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has “three days on end” in the ''Miles gloriosus'', and “let her stay here only these three days” in the ''Cistellaria'';^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler also gives Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a period of three days.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''Trīduō'' is “in three days”, as Cicero's “nobody can walk seven hundred miles in two or at most three days”, and ''trīduō post'' or ''prius'' three days after or before.^(OLD 2012) In Celsus it is a series of three set days, the third, fifth and seventh.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “space of three days” and also a three-day devotion;^(Stelten 1995) in Medieval Latin it is a three days' fast.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of three days on end.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a three days' walk.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of three set days of treatment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A period of three days;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''trīduō'', in three days.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A series of three (set) days.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A three-day devotion; a three days' [[m|en|fast]].^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trīduānus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[biduum]]

+ * [[quadrīduum]]

+ * [[trēs]]

+ * [[diēs]]

+ * [[en|triduum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}