Trinacria

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría, “having three headlands”), from its 3-fold rotational symmetry, giving it the form of a triskelion.

†Trinacria f

1. A taxonomic genus within the superphylum Heterokonta – various extinct diatoms of the Eocene.

• (genus): †Trinacria regina (type species)
  • For more species, see Trinacria (diatom) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia and Trinacria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Trinacria (diatom) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trinacria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Trinacria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría, “having three headlands”).

Trinacria

1. (historical) Sicily.
2. (historical) The Kingdom of Sicily.
3. The triskeles emblem of Sicily.
   1. (by extension) The flag of Sicily.

• Trinacria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría).

Trinacria f

1. (geography, obsolete) Sicily

   Synonym: Sicilia

2. the flag of the autonomous region of Sicily
3. the triskeles emblem of Sicily, which appears on the flag

• Regno di Trinacria
• trinacrio

• Trinacria on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Trinacria (araldica) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• bandiera della Sicilia on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• inarcarti, rincarati

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /triːˈna.kri.a/, [t̪riːˈnäkriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈna.kri.a/, [t̪riˈnäːkriä]

Trīnacria f sg (genitive Trīnacriae); first declension

1. An ancient name for Sicily or Sicilia, given its triangular shape and three large coastlines.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Sicilia

• French: Trinacrie
• Italian: Trinacria
• Russian: Тринакрия (Trinakrija)
• Sicilian: Trinàcria
• → English: Trinacria
• → German: Trinacria
• → Korean: 트리나크리아 (teurinakeuria)

• “Trinacria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Trinacria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.