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Religion (from O.Fr. religion religious community, from L. religionem (nom. religio) respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods, obligation, the bond between man and the gods) is derived from the Latin religiÅ, the ultimate origins of which are obscure.
That Latin word in turn comes from the Latin noun prex, simply translated as prayer or request. trinitatem: Latin has also given us one the chief words we use to describe to Whom we pray: the Trinity. The Latin source for this word is trinitatem, the term for the number three. Largely for its first two centuries, Trinity as a term describing God was unknown to the Christian world. It was first coined by the Latin Father Tertullian, writing in the early part of the third century.