Subject: Trifinia and Wise Agers<br/>
Date: Jul 23, 2003 @ 00:54<br/>
Author: bjbutlerus (&quot;bjbutlerus&quot; &lt;bjbutler@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-705084169">A search on trifinium and Latin yielded this gem.  We can probably use<br/>
a number of terms described here:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ku.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Ager.html">http://www.ku.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Ager.html</a><br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, spookymike@a... wrote:<br/>
&gt; I visited my local library Saturday and found the following<br/>
definitions in <br/>
&gt; The Oxford Latin Dictionary (1997):<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Trifinium:  A place where three boundaries meet.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Quadrifinium:  A place where four boundaries meet.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I found no &quot;...finium&quot; for five boundaries or more.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I prefer &quot;trifinium&quot; to the uninspiring &quot;tripoint.&quot;  As a Latin word<br/>
it also <br/>
&gt; has a universality that &quot;tripoint&quot; does not.  I wonder how the non <br/>
&gt; native-English speakers in this group feel about these terms.  I<br/>
also wonder if there is <br/>
&gt; a specific word in any other language to describe a trifinium?  <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Mike Schwartz </span></blockquote></div>