triquetra

[trahy-kwee-truh, -kwe-]

noun

1. a geometrical figure having three points, especially one formed of three intersecting ellipses.

   The triquetra was often used in ancient art to symbolize a triune deity.

Other Word Forms

• triquetric adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of triquetra¹

1580–90; < New Latin, noun use of feminine of Latin triquetrus triquetrous

Example Sentences

Floscularia cornuta—Euchlanis triquetra—Melicerta ringens—its powers as brickmaker, architect, and mason—Mode of viewing the Melicerta—Use of glass-cell—Habits of Melicerta—Curious Attitudes—Leave their tubes at death—Carchesium—Epistylis—Their elegant tree forms—A Parasitic Epistylis like the "Old Man of the Sea"—Halteria and its Leaps—Aspidisca Lynceus.

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It is of a triangular form, and for that reason was called Trinacria and Triquetra.

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The figure known as the triquetra, made by the interlacing of three portions of circles, is also symbolical of the Holy Trinity.

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Sicily was anciently called Sicania, Trinâcria, and Triquetra; its three promontories are particularly celebrated in the classic authors; viz.

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During the descent we had a fair prospect of the Canarian Triquetra.

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