trĕcēni
Meaning
- three hundred each
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
trecentī cuiquetrecēnī -ae -a — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 2
trĕcēni (tercēni, Eum. Rest. Schol. 11), ae, a (
I. gen. plur. trecenorum, Liv. 7, 25:
trecenūm, Sen. Q. N. 3, 7, 3), num. distr. adj. [tres-centum]. I. Lit., three hundred each, three hundred distributively:
treceni equites in singulis legionibus, Liv. 39, 38, 11; 8, 8, 14: familiae in singulas colonias, id. 32, 29, 4: nummi in capita Romana, id. 22, 52, 3.—Of an indefinitely large number: non si trecenis, quotquot eunt dies, Amice, places illacrimabilem Plutona tauris, Hor. C. 2, 14, 5. — II. Transf., in gen., three hundred:
vivere ducenis annis et quosdam trecenis, Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 28.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
trecēnī ae, a, num distr.
tres+centum, three hundred each, three hundred : equites in singulis legionibus, L.: trecenis, quotquot eunt dies, placare Plutona tauris, three hecatombs a day , H.