τρίαινα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) +‎ -αινᾰ (-aină). Chantraine considers a folk-etymological transformation after the numeral. Furnée compares τρίναξ (trínax, “instrument used in agriculture”) and θρῖναξ (thrînax, “three-pronged fork”), and asks whether the word could be a transformation of a Pre-Greek loan for an agricultural tool.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trí.ai̯.na/ → /ˈtri.ɛ.na/ → /ˈtri.e.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trí.ai̯.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ɛ.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ɛ.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.e.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.e.na/

Noun

τρῐ́αινᾰ • (trĭ́aină) f (genitive τρῐαίνης); first declension

1. trident, the badge of Poseidon

   Synonym: τριόδους (triódous)

2. three-pronged fork

   Synonym: θρῖναξ (thrînax)

3. (surgery) kind of cautery

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τρῐ́αινᾰ; τῆς τρῐαίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τρῐ́αινᾰ hē trĭ́aină	τὼ τρῐαίνᾱ tṑ trĭaínā	αἱ τρῐ́αιναι hai trĭ́ainai
Genitive	τῆς τρῐαίνης tês trĭaínēs	τοῖν τρῐαίναιν toîn trĭaínain	τῶν τρῐαινῶν tôn trĭainôn
Dative	τῇ τρῐαίνῃ tēî trĭaínēi	τοῖν τρῐαίναιν toîn trĭaínain	ταῖς τρῐαίναις taîs trĭaínais
Accusative	τὴν τρῐ́αινᾰν tḕn trĭ́ainăn	τὼ τρῐαίνᾱ tṑ trĭaínā	τᾱ̀ς τρῐαίνᾱς tā̀s trĭaínās
Vocative	τρῐ́αινᾰ trĭ́aină	τρῐαίνᾱ trĭaínā	τρῐ́αιναι trĭ́ainai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τριαινατῆρες (triainatêres)
• τριαινοειδής (triainoeidḗs)
• τριαινοῦχος (triainoûkhos)
• τριαινόω (triainóō)
• τριαινώδης (triainṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: τρίαινα (tríaina)

References

• “τρίαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τρίαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τρίαινα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τρίαινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τρίαινα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Noun

τρίαινα • (tríaina) f (plural τρίαινες)

1. trident (three tined harpoon)

Declension

Declension of τρίαινα

	singular	plural
nominative	τρίαινα (tríaina)	τρίαινες (tríaines)
genitive	τρίαινας (tríainas)	τριαινών (triainón)
accusative	τρίαινα (tríaina)	τρίαινες (tríaines)
vocative	τρίαινα (tríaina)	τρίαινες (tríaines)

Synonyms

• τρικράνι n (trikráni)

Further reading

• τρίαινα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el