Etymograph

English

triune

Triune comes from New Latin triūnus, from Latin ūnus ‘one, single’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óynos‘one, single’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oinos‘one’reconstructed
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEoinos
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEūnus‘one, single’
  5. New Latinc. 1500–1900triūnus
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1851triune

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óynos‘one, single’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oinos‘one’reconstructed
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEoinos
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEūnus‘one, single’
  5. New Latinc. 1500–1900triūnus
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1851triune

Earliest quotation: 1851, Herman Melville, The Whale: “The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos ‘one, single’

an, no, one, only, any, none, 20 more

through Proto-Italic *oinos ‘one’

null, 18 more

through Old Latin oinos

universally, 14 more

through Latin ūnus ‘one, single’

union, unique, universal, unite, uno, 15 more

Today it means

adj Both trine and one at the same time.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos / triune

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