triquetrus
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
trĭquē̆trus: a, um, adj.,
I having three corners, three-cornered, triangular.
I In gen.: triquetra aliis, aliis quadrata, Lucr. 4, 653: ager (opp. quadratus), Col. 5, 2, 1: figura (opp. quadrata), Plin. 2, 25, 23, § 93: (Britannia) insula naturā triquetra, Caes. B. G. 5, 13: Martis sidus numquam stationem facere Jovis sidere triquetro, i. e. distant by a third of the zodiac, Plin. 2, 17, 15, § 77; also as subst.: trĭquē̆trum, i, n., the trinal aspect, that in which a planet's longitude differs by one-third of a circle from the earth's: in triquetro, id. 2, 15, 12, § 59; 2, 18, 16, § 80.—
II In partic., as adj. prop., of or belonging to the island of Sicily, Sicilian: orae, Lucr. 1, 717; Sil. 5, 489: tellus, Hor. S. 2, 6, 55; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 30.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
trĭquĕtrus,¹⁴ a, um, qui a trois angles, triangulaire : Lucr. 4, 653 ; Plin. 2, 93 ; [forme de la Grande Bretagne] Cæs. G. 5, 13 || relatif à la Sicile [à cause des 3 pointes de cette île], Sicilien : Lucr. 1, 717 ; Hor. S. 2, 6, 55 ; Quint. 1, 6, 30.
Latin > German (Georges)
triquetrus, a, um, I) dreieckig, littera (das griech. Δ), Amm.: insula, von Britannien, Caes.: ager, Colum.: esse triquetra aliis, aliis quadrata necesse est, Lucr. – subst., triquetrum, ī, n., der Gedrittschein, Plin.: so auch Iovis sidere triquetro, Plin. – II) (weil Sizilien von seiner dreieckigen Gestalt Triquetra hieß [s. Plin. 3, 86], dah. =) sizilisch, orae, Lucr.: tellus, Hor. – / e ist lang gemessen bei Lucr. 4, 651 u. Hor. sat. 2, 6, 55, kurz bei Lucr. 1, 717. Sil. 6, 489.
Latin > English
triquetrus triquetra, triquetrum ADJ :: three cornered, triangular
