trine

From Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

trine (not comparable)

1. Triple; threefold.
2. (astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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 […]

trine (plural trines)

1. A group of three things.
   • Elizabeth Browning

     a single trine of brazen tortoises

2. (astrology) An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.

trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)

1. (transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
   • Dryden

     By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.

2. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To hang; To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
   • 1612, Dekker, Thomas, 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, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, 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.

3. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To go.
   • 1647, Fletcher, John, 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, Head, Richard, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy‎:

     From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.

• Terni, Tiner, inert, inter, inter-, niter, nitre, riten., terin

From Sanskrit त्रीणि (trīṇi)

trine

1. three

trine f

1. plural of trina

• entri, Terni, terni, treni

trīne

1. vocative masculine singular of trīnus

• trine in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

trine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of trinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of trinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of trinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of trinar

trine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of trinar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of trinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of trinar.