tricorporate en · ADJ
Etymology
From tri- + corporate.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.
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(not-comparable, rare) Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).
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[…]'
1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', page 131: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[…]
1963, Dietrich Von Bothmer, Attic Black-figured Amphorae:[...] 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 [...]
2015 January 12, A. Bernard Knapp, Peter van Dommelen, The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN: