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Trinacria

Trinacria · f

the island of Sicily

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Trīnā^crĭa — Lewis & Short

Trīnā^crĭa, ae, f., = *trinakri/a (with three promontories),

I the island of Sicily, Verg. A. 3, 440; 3, 582; Ov. P. 4, 15, 15; id. M. 5, 476; Just. 4, 2, 1.—Hence,

A Trīnā^-crĭus, a, um, adj., Trinacrian, Sicitian: Pachynus, Verg. A. 3, 429: Aetna, id. ib. 3, 554; also called Trinacria rupes, Cat. 68, 53: mare, Ov. F. 4, 287: unda, Verg. A. 3, 384: litus, id. ib. 1, 196: viri, id. ib. 5, 530: pubes, id. ib. 5, 450: equi, id. ib. 5, 573.—

B Trīnā^cris, ĭdis, adj. f., Trinacrian, Sicilian: terra, i. e. Trinacria or Sicily, Ov. F. 4, 420; also called Trinacris insula, id. M. 5, 347: Hybla, id. Tr. 5, 13, 22.—Subst.: Trīnăcris (sc. insula), the island of Trinacria, Sicily, Ov. P. 2, 10, 22.

In the wild

Trinacriae Appendix Vergiliana, Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 9
Trinacriae Ovid, Epistulae 12.126
Trinacriam Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.476
Trinacriae Vergil, Aeneid 5.555
Trinacriam Vergil, Aeneid 5.393
Trinacriam Vergil, Aeneid 3.582

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Where it came from

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