The story
- Latin · borrowed fromtrigeminus“threefold, triple, triform”
- English todaytrigeminus
PIE word *tréyes Borrowed from Latin trigeminus (“threefold, triple, triform”), clipping of nervus trigeminus (“triple nerve”).
Words from the same roots
Latintrigeminus all →
trigeminous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.