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trinal

UK/ˈtɹaɪnəl/

trinal adjective: having three parts; triple.

Adjective

trinal (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Having three parts; triple.
    • Like as it had bene many an Angels voice, // Singing before th’ eternall maiesty, // In their trinall triplicities on hye.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XXXIX, page 181
    • The trinal division of body, mind and soul becomes a unity, a holy trinity. And with it the realization that one aspect of our nature cannot be exalted above another...1941, Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

Forms of trinal

alternative form (obsolete)trinall

Origin of trinal

From the Medieval Latin trīnālis.

Words that rhyme with trinal

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Questions about trinal

What does trinal mean?
Trinal means having three parts; triple.
What part of speech is trinal?
Trinal is an adjective.
How do you pronounce trinal?
Trinal is pronounced /ˈtɹaɪnəl/ (UK).

Words near trinal in the dictionary

  1. Trina
  2. Trinacria
  3. Trinacrian
  4. Trinacrians
  5. trinacriform
  6. trinal
  7. trinality
  8. trinall
  9. trinaphthylene
  10. trinaries
  11. trinarization

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