tritus

Perfect passive participle of terō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtriː.tus/, [ˈt̪riːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tus/, [ˈt̪riːt̪us]

trītus (feminine trīta, neuter trītum); first/second-declension participle

1. rubbed, triturated
2. worn out or away, well-worn

First/second-declension adjective.

• triticum

• → English: trite

• “tritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tritus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a well-trodden, much-frequented way: via trita
    
  • a fine, practised ear: aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
    
  • an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
    
  • cast-off clothing: vestitus obsoletus, tritus
    
• tritus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016