The corpus record — Latin

tridens

having three teeth

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trĭ-dens — Lewis & Short

trĭ-dens, entis (

abl. tridenti, Verg. A. 1, 145; 2, 418; Sil. 3, 53:

I tridente, Ov. M. 1, 283; 6, 75; Plin. 9, 15, 20, § 51), adj. tres, having three teeth or tines, three-tined, threepronged, tridented, trident.

I Adj.: rostra, Verg. A. 5, 143: aes, Val. Fl. 1, 688: tridenti armatus ferro, Arn. 3, 31.—

II Subst.: trĭdens, entis, m., a three-tined spear, a trident, used to spear large fish, Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 92; 9, 15, 20, § 51; 9, 29, 45, § 84.—As an attribute of Neptune, Verg. G. 1, 13; id. A. 2, 610; Prop. 2, 26 (3, 22), 48; Ov. M. 1, 283; 6, 75.—As a weapon of the net-fighters (retiarii), Juv. 8, 203.

In the wild

tridentem Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.115
tridenti Silius Italicus, Punica 17.242
tridentem Juvenal, Saturae 3.8.203
tridenti Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.113
Tridentum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.10.20
tridenti Vergil, Georgicon 1.13

6 of 34 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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