Trinity

From Middle English trinitie, trinite, from Anglo-Norman trinitie, trinite (or ternite, trenite, trinetei, trinitiet, trinitet), from Latin trīnitātem, accusative singular of trīnitās (“the number three; a triad; the Trinity”), from trīni (from trīnus (“triple”), from trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + -itās (from Proto-Italic *-itāts and *-otāts, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”)).

Trinity

1. (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
   • 1836, Thomas Robbins, A Discourse on the Doctrine of the Trinity, page 17:

     He speaks distinctly of the Trinity of the godhead in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

   • 1846, John Wilson, Scripture Proofs and Scriptural Illustrations of Unitarianism, page 149:

     From all eternity Jesus Christ existed, and Jesus Christ was with God the Father, the first person of the Trinity; and Jesus Christ was God the Son, the second person of the Trinity.

2. A female given name used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent.
3. A male given name
4. A small coastal town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
5. A town in Alabama State.
6. A city in North Carolina State.
7. A city/town in Texas State.
8. Trinity term.

• Threeness

• Trinity County
• Trinity Sunday

• Antitrinitarian, antitrinitarian
• Nontrinitarian, nontrinitarian
• Trinitarian

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