ternio

Latin

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Cardinal: trēs     Ordinal: tertius     Adverbial: ter     Proportional: triplus     Multiplier: triplex     Distributive: ternus, trīnus     Collective: terniō     Fractional: triēns

Etymology

From ternus (“three each”) +‎ -iō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛr.ni.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛr.ni.o]

Noun

terniō m (genitive terniōnis); third declension

1. (dice games) The number three on a die
2. a set of three
3. a ternion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	terniō	terniōnēs
genitive	terniōnis	terniōnum
dative	terniōnī	terniōnibus
accusative	terniōnem	terniōnēs
ablative	terniōne	terniōnibus
vocative	terniō	terniōnēs

References

• “ternio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ternio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.