trutina

Latin

Etymology

Early borrowing from Ancient Greek τρυτάνη (trutánē), displaying vowel reduction.

Noun

trutina f (genitive trutinae); first declension

1. balance, (pair of) scales

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trutina	trutinae
genitive	trutinae	trutinārum
dative	trutinae	trutinīs
accusative	trutinam	trutinās
ablative	trutinā	trutinīs
vocative	trutina	trutinae

Derived terms

• trutinō/ trutinor

Descendants

• Portuguese: trutina

References

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