trītus
Meaning
- a rubbing
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
ūsū pressustrītus -a -um — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 5
trītus, ūs (found only in
I. abl. sing.), m. tero, a rubbing or wearing: lapidum conflictu atque tritu, * Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25; cf. Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 66 (al. attritu); 34, 12, 30, § 120 (dub.); Lact. 6, 4, 6.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
trītus adj. with comp.
P. of tero, oft-trodden, beaten, frequented, common, worn : iter in Graeciam: Appia trita rotis, O.—Fig., practised, expert : aures.—Of language, much used, familiar, common, commonplace, trite : quid in Graeco sermone tam tritum est, quam, etc.: sermone proverbium: verbum tritius.
(trītus, ūs) m
1 TER-, a rubbing down, wearing away (only abl.): lapidum tritu.
In English words that came into English from trītus
- tritetrītus
- triticumtrīticum
- triticealtriticeus