triga

From Latin triga, a contraction of ter or tri- (“thrice”) + iuga (“yoked”).

triga (plural trigas or trigae)

1. (historical) A three-horse chariot used by the Ancient Romans.

• biga, quadriga

• tragi

triga

1. third-person singular present indicative form of trigar
2. second-person singular imperative form of trigar

triga f sg

1. feminine singular of trigo

A contraction of ter or tri- (“thrice”) + iuga (“yoked”).

trīga f (genitive trīgae); first declension

1. (historical) A triga: a three-horse chariot during Roman times.
2. (figuratively) A trio: a set of three things bound together.
   • 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum Triga

     Augsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays

First declension.

• biga, quadriga

• (English): triga

• triga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• triga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• triga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• triga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers