trifurcus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tri- < tres (“three”) + furca (“fork”).
Adjective[edit]
trifurcus (feminine trifurca, neuter trifurcum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) having three forks, prongs, or points
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | trifurcus | trifurca | trifurcum | trifurcī | trifurcae | trifurca | |
| Genitive | trifurcī | trifurcae | trifurcī | trifurcōrum | trifurcārum | trifurcōrum | |
| Dative | trifurcō | trifurcō | trifurcīs | ||||
| Accusative | trifurcum | trifurcam | trifurcum | trifurcōs | trifurcās | trifurca | |
| Ablative | trifurcō | trifurcā | trifurcō | trifurcīs | |||
| Vocative | trifurce | trifurca | trifurcum | trifurcī | trifurcae | trifurca | |
Descendants[edit]
- Albanian: tërfurk
References[edit]
- “trifurcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- trifurcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.