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語源

From 中期英語 trinite, from Anglo-Norman trinite and Old French ternite (modern French trinité), from Latin trīnitās, from trīnī (“three each”), from trēs (“three”). By surface analysis, trine +‎ -ity. Displaced native 古期英語 þrines (literally “threeness”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɹɪnɪti/
• 韻: -ɪnɪti

名詞

trinity (plural trinities)

1. A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

2. The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.

同意語

• (group of three): threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio
• (independence of three): threeness; see also Thesaurus:threeness

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参考

• binitarian
• binity (“twoness”)
• duality (“twoness”)
• quaternity (“fourness”)
• quinity (“fiveness”)
• Trinity
• Trinity College
• triunity
• unitarian
• unity (“oneness”)