The corpus record — Latin

trimetros

trimetros · adj

containing three metres

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Institutio Oratoria 7 · 0.41/10k

What it meant

trĭmĕtrŏs — Lewis & Short

trĭmĕtrŏs or -trus, tra, trum (postclass. collat. form trĭmĕtrĭus, a, um, adj., = tri/metros; in prosody,

Aus. Ep. 16, 78; Sid. poët. Ep. 9, 15),

I containing three metres or double-feet, trimeter: versus, Quint. 10, 1, 99.—As subst.: trĭmē^tros (-trus), i, m., a trimeter, Quint. 9, 4, 90; 9, 4, 75; 9, 4, 108 al.; Hor. A. P. 252; Ter. Maur. p. 2432 P.; Diom. p. 506 ib.—Also called trĭmĕ-ter, Serv. Verg. E. 8, 78.

In the wild

trimetri Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.111
trimetron Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.78
trimetri Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.75
trimetris Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 259
trimetris Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 252
trimetri Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.108

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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