Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tricorporate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tri-cor-po-rate
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.

adj

Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).

Example Sentences

"For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate."
"Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope[…]'"
"Athena wears a belted peplos, a bracelet, a necklace, and a fillet; in her left hand she holds a spear. [...] The tricorporate monster is joined from the hips to the shoulders. One part, on the foremost plane, is dying and turns[…]"
"[...] attractive suggestion that the famous threeheaded 'Bluebeard' from the Old Temple of Athena (Heberdey 1919: 52–69) on the Acropolis in Athens represents Geryon. Images of a threeheaded, tricorporate warrior first appear in Cyprus in the [...]"

Etymology

From tri- + corporate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: tri

Frequently Paired Words

bicorporate

Synonyms

tricorporated tricorporal

Questions

What does tricorporate mean?: Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
Where does tricorporate come from?: From tri- + corporate.

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