English
triones
Triones comes from Latin triō ‘a plow ox’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtriōas triōnēs‘a plow ox’
- Englishtodaytriones
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtriōas triōnēs‘a plow ox’
- Englishtodaytriones
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, turn’
turn, throw, tournament, thread, tragic, threshold, trout, detrimental, detour, thrash, detriment, tourney, termite, tourniquet, attrition, triage, detritus, trite, truant, thresher, tribulation, derma, thresh, 40 more
through Latin triō ‘a plow ox’
Today it means
noun The seven principal stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin triō / triones