tricies Latin · revision 34409

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *tri(d)ḱomt}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trīciēs''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''trīciēns''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Other spellings are ''tricēsiēs'' and ''trīgiēs''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trīgintā|-iēns|t1=thirty]], built on an earlier form of the numeral.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary traces [[m|la|trīgintā]] to [[ine-pro|*tri(d)ḱomt|t=thirty]] and compares [[grc|τριάκοντα|tr=triákonta|t=thirty]] and [[sa|त्रिंशत्|tr=triṃśát|t=thirty]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses ''triciēns'' with sesterces understood for three million sesterces in the Verrines and in the ''Republic''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means thirty times, on thirty occasions, and in multiplication thirty times: Columella reckons thirty times thirty feet as nine hundred.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With ''sēstertium'' or a word for money understood it means three million sesterces, as in Cicero and Martial.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The author of the ''Bellum Africum'' writes ''tricēsiēs'', and Martianus Capella ''trīgiēs''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In British medieval Latin it is used in compound numerals and of an army thirty times larger, as in Bede.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of three million sesterces.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella multiplies thirty by thirty.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of three million sesterces.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|thirty|alt=Thirty]] times, on thirty occasions;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(in multiplication)'' thirty times.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(with sēstertium or similar understood)'' Three [[m|en|million]] sesterces.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[trīgintā]]

+ * [[deciēns]]

+ * [[centiēns]]

+ * [[mīliēns]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}