Meanings
adjectivetrinal (not comparable)
alternative obsolete trinall
- archaicnot comparableHaving three parts; triple.
Like as it had bene many an Angels voice, // Singing before th’ eternall maiesty, // In their trinall triplicities on hye.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XXXIX, page 1811 more example
The trinal division of body, mind and soul becomes a unity, a holy trinity. And with it the realization that one aspect of our nature cannot be exalted above another...
1941, Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
Origin
From the Medieval Latin trīnālis.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with trinal
finalvinylspinalvaginalintestinaldoctrinalsemifinalcerebrospinalurinalquarterfinalmediastinaltransvaginalvinalvulvovaginalnonfinalcorticospinalintravaginalanginalintraspinalparaspinalbinalabdominovaginalaffinalanospinal
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APA
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MLA
“trinal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trinal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trinal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trinal.
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