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Trinacrian, a.|traɪˈneɪkrɪən|
[f. L. Trīnacria Sicily, a. Gr. τρινακρία, taken as f. τρι- tri- + ἄκρα point, cape; but orig. θρῑνακίη, f. θρῖναξ trident.]
Of Sicily, Sicilian; hence, three-pointed.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. (1645) 49 The Trinacrian Vespers, and Bartholomean Massacre, were nothing to this. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 661 Vex'd Scylla bathing in the Sea that parts Calabria from the hoarce Trinacrian shore. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. x. (1896) I. 201 Only the Trinacrian legs of [the Isle of] Man.
So trinacrite |ˈtrɪnəkraɪt| Min., a brown variety of palagonite. (Now considered as a rock.)
1854Dana Min. (ed. 4) ii. 166 Trinacrite..is dull brown and cleavable or micaceous, and is mixed with..Siderosilicite. 1868Watts Dict. Chem. V. 240 Siderosilicite, a mineral forming, together with trinacrite, a brown mass on the tufa..at Cape Passaro, the southernmost point of Sicily. |