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thrin, thrinne, a. (n.)
Forms: 1 þrinna, 3–4 þrinne, 3–5 thrinne, 4 þrynne, þrine, thrine, threin, thrijn, 5 thryn, 4 (9 n.) thrin.
[Late OE. þrinna, a. early ON. þrinn-r (later þrenn-r) triple, threefold; often = three (Sw. trenne, Da. trende), prob.:—OTeut. *þrizno-z, f. *þris (Indo-Eur. *tris, Skr. tris, Gr. τρίς) thrice, with adj. ending: cf. L. trī-nus, pl. trī-nī = ternī.]
†A. adj. Threefold, triple; also three kinds of, three. An adj., but sometimes best rendered by ‘thrice’ (cf. ON. þrennar tylptir ‘triple twelves’, i.e. ‘thrice twelve’). Obs.
a1012Laws æthelred iii. c. 13 Ladiᵹe hine mid þrinna xii [L. cum ter xii]; and se ᵹerefa namiᵹe þa lade. c1200Ormin 1144 Her habbe icc shæwedd þrinne lac Forr þrinne kinne leode. a1300Cursor M. 3381 Ysmael had wijfs thrin [v.rr. þrinne, thre]. c1300Havelok 716 Hauelok..he dide þer-inne, Him and his wif, hise sones þrinne, And hise two doutres. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1805 Þus vpon þrynne wyses I haf yow þro schewed.
absol.c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 385 Þey departed þys land in þrynne. 13..Cursor M. 9815 (Cott.) His hert aght ar atbrest in thrin [Gött. o thrinne]. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1727 Mane, Techal, Pharez, merked in þrynne.
B. n. (in pl.) [perh. a new formation after twins.] Three children at a birth. ? dial.
1838Thoreau Jrnl. 14 June (1949) I. 51 Truth, Goodness, Beauty,—those celestial thrins. 1878Cumbld. Gloss., Thrins, three at a birth. 1887Indian Med. Gaz. 1 Sept. 246 In the case of twins and thrins about three times more than in the case of singletons. |