unitrinus

Latin

Etymology

From ūnus (“one, single”) +‎ trīnus (“three, triple”). Compare triūnus, with the opposite order. Both adjectives were often used together.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uː.nɪˈtriː.nʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [u.niˈt̪riː.nus]

Adjective

ūnitrīnus (feminine ūnitrīna, neuter ūnitrīnum); first/second-declension adjective

(New Latin) triune; existing as a unitary trinity
- 1440, Nicholas of Cusa, “Capitulum XIX. Transumptio trianguli infiniti ad trinitatem maximam”, in De docta ignorantia‎^[1], volume 1:
  Coniunge igitur ista, quae videntur opposita, antecedenter, ut praedixi; et non habebis unum et tria vel e converso, sed unitrinum seu triunum.
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- 1453, Nicholas of Cusa, De Visione Dei:
  O mirabilissimus deus, qui neque es numeri singularis, neque numeri pluralis, sed super omnem pluralitatem et singularitatem unitrinus et triunus.
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- 1519, Guillaume Briçonnet, Sermo synodalis R. in Christo Patris D. Gvillermi Meldensis Ep̃i, habitus Meldis, anno 1915, die 13 Octobris: quo monẽntur quibus ouiũ cura credita est, illis præentes inuigilare.‎^[2], Paris: Henricus Stephanus, published 1520:
  nõ vos ipsos, sed secũdũ Petri præceptũ, pascite ꝗ in vobis est, gregem dei, prouidentes non coacte, sed spõtanee, secundum deum, neqꝫ vt dominãntes, sed forma facti gregis, vt cum apparuerit prĩceps pastorum dulcissimus IHESVS, percipiatis immarcessibilem gloriæ coronam, quã vobis largiatur qui vnitrinus et triunus est.
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- 1613 [1603], Quercetanus, De Priscorum Philosophorum verae medicinae materia, page 20:
  Voluitq́ue summus ille creator manifestari unitrinus, seu triunus, non tantùm in eo, quod reperitur in natura terrae, sed in omnibus etiam totius creationis operibus.
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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	ūnitrīnus	ūnitrīna	ūnitrīnum	ūnitrīnī	ūnitrīnae	ūnitrīna
genitive	ūnitrīnī	ūnitrīnae	ūnitrīnī	ūnitrīnōrum	ūnitrīnārum	ūnitrīnōrum
dative	ūnitrīnō	ūnitrīnae	ūnitrīnō	ūnitrīnīs
accusative	ūnitrīnum	ūnitrīnam	ūnitrīnum	ūnitrīnōs	ūnitrīnās	ūnitrīna
ablative	ūnitrīnō	ūnitrīnā	ūnitrīnō	ūnitrīnīs
vocative	ūnitrīne	ūnitrīna	ūnitrīnum	ūnitrīnī	ūnitrīnae	ūnitrīna

Related terms

triūnus
ūnitrīnitās