Trimalchio
Trimalchio noun: a nouveau riche.
Noun
Trimalchio (plural Trimalchios or Trimalchiones)
- A nouveau riche.
- To name living examples of him would be actionable; besides, you are old enough, surely, to remember the Great War against Germany, and the host of Trimalchiones and Fortunatæ whom it enknighted and endamed.1923, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, “On Reading Petronius; An Open Letter to a Young Gentleman”, in The Satyricon of T. Petronius Arbiter
- It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night—and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 7, in The Great Gatsby
Forms of Trimalchio
| plural | Trimalchios |
|---|---|
| plural | Trimalchiones |
Origin of Trimalchio
Borrowed from Latin Trimalchiō, a wealthy freedman in the 1st century CE Roman work of fiction Satyricon.
Questions about Trimalchio
- What does Trimalchio mean?
- Trimalchio means a nouveau riche.
- What part of speech is Trimalchio?
- Trimalchio is a noun.
- What is the plural of Trimalchio?
- The plural of Trimalchio is Trimalchios.
Words near Trimalchio in the dictionary
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