triclinium

Latin trīclīnium, from Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion).

triclinium (plural tricliniums or triclinia)

1. (Ancient Rome) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 259:

     Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;...

2. (Ancient Rome) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.

• biclinium

• triclinial
• tricliniary

triclinium m (plural trincliniums or triclinia)

1. triclinium

• “triclinium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion), from τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + κλίνω (klínō, “to lean”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triːˈkliː.ni.um/, [t̪riːˈklʲiːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈkli.ni.um/, [t̪riˈkliːnium]

trīclīnium n (genitive trīclīniī or trīclīnī); second declension

1. dining room, where three couches are laid out for dining around a small serving table.
2. a couch for reclining at meal, on which three people may recline.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• cēnāculum

• architrīclīnus
• trīclīniarchēs
• trīclīniāria
• trīclīniāris

• Italian: triclinio

• “triclinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triclinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triclinium 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)
• triclinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “triclinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “triclinium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

triclinium n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tricliniu