tritus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of terō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪riː.t̪us]

Participle

trītus (feminine trīta, neuter trītum); first/second-declension participle

1. rubbed, triturated
2. worn out or away, well-worn

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	trītus	trīta	trītum		trītī	trītae	trīta
genitive	trītī	trītae	trītī		trītōrum	trītārum	trītōrum
dative	trītō	trītae	trītō		trītīs
accusative	trītum	trītam	trītum		trītōs	trītās	trīta
ablative	trītō	trītā	trītō		trītīs
vocative	trīte	trīta	trītum		trītī	trītae	trīta

Derived terms

• triticum

Descendants

• Italian: trito
• → English: trite

References

• “tritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tritus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tritus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a well-trodden, much-frequented way: via trita
    
  • a fine, practised ear: aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
    
  • an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
    
  • cast-off clothing: vestitus obsoletus, tritus
    
• tritus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016