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triquetra

[ trahy-kwee-truh, -kwe- ]

noun

  1. a geometrical figure having three points, especially one formed of three intersecting ellipses:

    The triquetra was often used in ancient art to symbolize a triune deity.



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Other Words From

  • tri·quet·ric [trahy-, kwe, -trik], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of triquetra1

1580–90; < New Latin, noun use of feminine of Latin triquetrus triquetrous
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Example Sentences

Floscularia cornuta—Euchlanis triquetra—Melicerta ringens—its powers as brickmaker, architect, and mason—Mode of viewing the Melicerta—Use of glass-cell—Habits of Melicerta—Curious Attitudes—Leave their tubes at death—Carchesium—Epistylis—Their elegant tree forms—A Parasitic Epistylis like the "Old Man of the Sea"—Halteria and its Leaps—Aspidisca Lynceus.

It is of a triangular form, and for that reason was called Trinacria and Triquetra.

The figure known as the triquetra, made by the interlacing of three portions of circles, is also symbolical of the Holy Trinity.

Sicily was anciently called Sicania, Trinâcria, and Triquetra; its three promontories are particularly celebrated in the classic authors; viz.

During the descent we had a fair prospect of the Canarian Triquetra.

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