trigeminus

Borrowed from Latin trigeminus (“threefold, triple, triform”), clipping of nervus trigeminus (“triple nerve”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈd͡ʒɛm.ən.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɛmɪnəs

trigeminus (plural trigemini)

1. (neuroanatomy) Alternative form of trigeminal nerve.

• “trigeminus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “trigeminus nerve”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• tergeminus (poetic)

From tri- (“three”) +‎ geminus (“twinborn; paired, double, twofold”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /triˈɡe.mi.nus/, [t̪rɪˈɡɛmɪnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈd͡ʒe.mi.nus/, [t̪riˈd͡ʒɛːminus]

trigeminus (feminine trigemina, neuter trigeminum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (literal) three born at a birth
2. (transferred sense, chiefly poetic) threefold, triple, triform

   Synonym: triplex

First/second-declension adjective.

• Porta Trigemina
• trigeminō (verb)

• bigeminus
• centumgeminus
• quadrigeminus
• septemgeminus

• → Catalan: trigemin
• → English: trigeminus
• ⇒ English: trigeminal

• “trigeminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press