Word origins

• tetraptoteA noun that has four cases.
• tetricMorose, bitter.
• tetricityThe quality of being tetric: crabbedness, harshness, bitterness.
• TexandriaAn ancient region in northwestern Europe.
• textus receptusThe succession of printed Greek texts of the New Testament which constituted the translation base for various early versions of the Bible in Western and Central Europe.
• TheagenesA male given name.
• ThebaicTheban; of or pertaining to Thebes, especially in the context of the Coptic scriptures.
• ThebaidA region of ancient Egypt, comprising the thirteen southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan.
• thelonyA toll or custom required from travelling merchants as a tax on doing business.
• TheodoriasA Byzantine province on the coast of modern-day Syria, established in the 6th century CE by Emperor Justinian I, named in honor of his wife Theodora. Capital: Laodicea ad Mare (modern-day Latakia).
• theologueA student of theology
• theologusSynonym of theologian (“Roman Catholic lecturer”).
• TherapeutaeA Jewish sect which flourished in Alexandria and other parts of the Diaspora of Hellenistic Judaism in the final years of the Second Temple period.
• ThermaeanOf or relating to the city of Therma.
• ThermaicOf or relating to the city of Therma.
• thermopoliumA place where food and hot drinks were sold.
• ThersanderName of several characters in Greek mythology
• thrasonicalBoastful, bragging, vainglorious.
• thuralrelated to incense
• thuribulerA thurifer.
• ThuriiAn ancient city of Bruttium not far from Sybaris
• ThyreaThe ancient capital of Cynuria district, Peloponnesus, Greece
• TicinumAn ancient city in Italy, now Pavia
• tincturatincture
• tinctura myrrhaeA preparation made by macerating or digesting myrrh with alcohol and filtering.
• tintinnabulateTo ring, tinkle, toll, or otherwise sound like bells.
• tirociniumSchooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.
• TirynsAn ancient city in Argolis, Greece
• TisamenusName of several male characters in Greek mythology
• TitanidAny one of Uranus and Gaia's daughters; a female Titan.
• tithymalAny kind of spurge, especially Euphorbia cyparissias.
• titubateTo stagger
• TochariAn ancient people of Bactria.
• TocharianOf or relating to the Tochari (people of Bactria).
• tolutiloquenceA way of speaking characterized by nimbleness and volubility.
• tonsorSynonym of barber.
• tophusA deposit of monosodium urate crystals in the body, caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood.
• torcularA tourniquet.
• torcular HerophiliSynonym of confluence of sinuses.
• torculusA neume denoting a set of three tones which first rise from the original tone, then fall.
• tormentumAn ancient engine for hurling missiles.
• torpedinousstupefying; dull; torpid.
• tortileTwisted, winding, contorted.
• torulusThe socket of an antenna.
• torvidFierce, stern.
• tota scripturaThe principle that the entire Bible, with all of its books, chapters, and verses, is equally inspired and authoritative.
• toto genereentirely; in all aspects
• trabeaA toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes, worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.
• trabeateSynonym of trabeated.
• trabeatedBuilt with horizontal beams; furnished with an entablature
• trabeationBeams used instead of arches or vaulting.
• tragelaphusA fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist.
• tralatitioustransferred
• trans-Extending across, through, or over.
• transactorA person who transacts business.
• transductorA kind of magnetic amplifier used in power systems for compensating reactive power.
• transfretationa passage over a strait of narrow sea
• TransitusThe time of passage through death to eternal life.
• transluceTo shine (light) through, and thus make (the thing which is shined through) translucent.
• transmigrateTo migrate to another country.
• transpicuousEasily construed or seen through.
• transverberationA form of religious ecstasy characterized by a piercing sensation.
• trapeziformShaped like a trapezium.
• tremendSynonym of tremendous.
• tribadicRelating to tribadism.
• tricenarianThe highest rank and pay grade for prefectures in Ancient Rome.
• tricennaliaThe festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.
• tricenniumA period of thirty years.
• tricliniumA couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
• tricolon crescensA "rising" tricolon, its parts increasing in magnitude or intensity towards a climax on the third part
• tricolon diminuensA "diminishing" tricolon, its parts decreasing in magnitude or intensity
• triensA bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic valued at 4 unciae.
• trigintillion10⁹³.
• TrimalchioA nouveau riche.
• trinitaryRelating to a trinity or set of three, especially the Holy Trinity.
• trinoda necessitasA threefold tax in Anglo-Saxon times, by which subjects of the king were required to repair bridges and roads (bridge-bote), build and repair fortifications (burgh-bote), and serve in the fyrd or militia (fyrd-bote).
• trionesThe seven principal stars in the constellation Ursa Major
• TripolitanOf, from or relating to Tripoli
• TriptolemusA Greek mythological figure, prominent in the cult of the Eleusinian Mysteries, credited with inventing agriculture.
• triptoteA noun which has three cases.
• tripudiateTo dance with joy or exultation.
• tripudiumA solemn religious dance of the Ancient Romans, performed in triple time.
• tripusA vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi.
• TritaeaA town of Achaia and member of the Achean league
• triturateTo grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
• triumphatorOne granted a triumph.
• trochilThe crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius.
• trochilusAny member of the hummingbird genus Trochilus.
• trochleaIn the elbow joint, the articular surface of the lower extremity of the humerus, grasped by the trochlear notch of the ulna.
• TroezenA municipal unit of Troizinia-Methana in northeastern Peloponnese, within Islands regional unit, Attica, Greece.
• trophusMouthpart of certain types of organism such as an insect or a member of the Rotifera.
• trucidateTo slaughter, massacre, kill.
• truncus arteriosusThe single arterial outlet in the embryological heart which later divides into the aorta and the pulmonary trunk.
• tuberculateHaving tubercles.
• tuberculumtubercle
• TubusuctuA town in Mauretania Caesariensis, Roman Empire, situated near Saldae
• tumidSwollen, enlarged, bulging.
• tunica mediaThe middle layer of a blood vessel, located between the tunica intima and tunica externa.
• tunicleA small tunic.
• turioA shoot or sprout from the ground.