# trine
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /tɹaɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪn

### Etymology 1

From Middle English trine, from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.

#### Adjective

trine (not comparable)
* Triple; threefold.
    Synonyms: tern, treble; see also Thesaurus:triple
* (astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection ii:The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]

#### Noun

trine (plural trines)
* A group of three things.
    Synonyms: threesome, triad; see also Thesaurus:trio
** 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:a single trine of brazen tortoises
* (astrology) An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.

#### Verb

trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)
* (transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
** 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
* (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
    Synonyms: hang, swing; see also Thesaurus:die by hanging
** 1612, Thomas Dekker, Lantern and Candlelight‎:Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
** 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1:Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English trynen, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”); compare Old Swedish trina (“to go”).

#### Verb

trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)
* (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To go.
** 1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush‎, published 1706, act 3, scene 3, page 42:Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.
** 1673, Richard Head, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy‎:From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.

### References

* John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “trine”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* terin, riten., inter-, n-tier, inert, -retin, -retin-, inter, Inter, retin, nitre, niter, Terni, Tiner

## Caló
### Numeral

trine
* Alternative form of trin (“three”)

### References

* “trine” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.

## Italian
### Noun

trine f
* plural of trina

### Anagrams

* Inter, Terni, entri, inter-, terni, treni

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtriː.ne/, [ˈt̪riːnɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtri.ne/, [ˈt̪riːne]

### Numeral

trīne
* vocative masculine singular of trīnus

### References

* trine 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)

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.

#### Alternative forms

* tryne

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtriːn(ə)/

#### Adjective

trine
* trine, triple

##### Related terms

* trinite

##### Descendants

* English: trine

##### References

* “trīne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

trine
* Alternative form of trynen

## Portuguese
### Verb

trine
* inflection of trinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

trine
* inflection of trinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative