triarii

triarii

1. plural of triarius

From tri- (“three”) +‎ -āriī (plural of -ārius, forming agent nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [triˈaː.ri.iː]

triāriī m pl (genitive triāriōrum); second declension

1. (military, plural only) the third and last line in the Roman army (after, respectively, the prī̆ncipēs and the hastātī)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.23:

     Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.

     The works were not set aside by the Romans—triarii where there to fend off the enemy—and a fight broke out led by the hastati and principes, eager and fully-equiped, who had been placed before the workers.

Second-declension noun, plural only.

• pīlus
• prīmipīlus

• “triarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “triarii”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “triarii”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “triarii”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin