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单词 thrin
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thrinthrinneadj.n.

Forms: Old English þrinna, Middle English þrinne, Middle English thrinne, Middle English þrynne, þrine, thrine, threin, thrijn, Middle English thryn, Middle English (1800s n.) thrin.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse þrinn-r.
Etymology: Late Old English þrinna, < early Old Norse þrinn-r (later þrenn-r) triple, threefold; often = three (Swedish trenne, Danish trende), probably < Old Germanic *þrizno-z, < *þris (Indo-European *tris, Sanskrit tris, Greek τρίς) thrice, with adjectival ending: compare Latin trīnus, plural trīnī = ternī.
A. adj. Threefold, triple; also three kinds of, three.
An adjective, but sometimes best rendered by ‘thrice’ (cf. Old Norse þrennar tylptir ‘triple twelves’, i.e. ‘thrice twelve’). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adjective]
thrina1012
threefoldc1175
trebled?c1400
triplatec1430
triplicate?a1475
triplated1486
triple1549
tripled1583
thrice1602
triplicated1635
a1012 Laws Æthelred iii. c. 13 Ladige hine mid þrinna xii[L. cum ter xii]; and se gerefa namige þa lade.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1144 Her habbe icc shæwedd þrinne lac Forr þrinne kinne leode.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 716 Hauelok..he dide þer-inne, Him and his wif, hise sones þrinne, And hise two doutres.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3381 Ysmael had wijfs thrin [Fairf. þrinne, Trin. Cambr. thre].
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1805 Þus vpon þrynne wyses I haf yow þro schewed.
absolute.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 385 Þey departed þys land in þrynne.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9815 His hert aght ar at brest in thrin [Gött. o thrinne].c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1727 Mane, Techal, Pharez, merked in þrynne.
B. n. In plural. [perhaps a new formation after twins.]
Three children at a birth. ? dialect.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > triplets
trines1628
triplet1787
trins1831
thrin1838
tripling1858
1838 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 14 June (1981) I. 48 Truth—Goodness—Beauty—those celestial thrins.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Thrins, three at a birth.
1887 Indian Med. Gaz. 1 Sept. 246 In the case of twins and thrins about three times more than in the case of singletons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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