trimester

See also Trimester

English

WOTD – 31 July 2010    

Etymology

From French trimestre < from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"traI.mEs.t@(r)/

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Noun

trimester (plural trimesters)

1. A period of three months or about three months.

   She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.

2. One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester.

   The school operates on a trimester schedule.

Coordinate terms

• (term of an academic year): quarter, semester

Holonyms

• (term of academic year): academic year

Hypernyms

• (term of academic year): term

Translations

period of three months

• Armenian: եռամսյակ (hy) (eṙamsyak), քառորդ (hy) (kʿaṙord)
• Catalan: trimestre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三月期 (sān yuè qī)

• Czech: trimestr (cs)
• Finnish: kolmekuukautisjakso (fi), kolmannes (fi) (of pregnancy)
• French: trimestre (fr)
• Galician: trimestre (gl) m
• German: Trimester (de)

• Hungarian: trimeszter (hu)
• Italian: trimestre (it)
• Latin: trimestris (la)
• Norwegian: trimester (no) n
• Romanian: trimestru (ro) n
• Russian: триместр (ru) (triméstr) m; квартал (ru) (kvartál) m (only as "a quarter of a year")
• Slovak: trimester (sk)
• Spanish: trimestre (es)

term of academic year

• Armenian: քառորդ (hy) (kʿaṙord)
• Catalan: trimestre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學期 (cmn), 学期 (cmn) (xuéqī)

• Finnish: lukukausi (fi)
• Hungarian: trimeszter (hu)

• Japanese: 学期 (ja) (がっき, gakki)
• Polish: trymestr (pl) m
• Romanian: trimestru (ro) n
• Russian: триместр (ru) (triméstr) m
• Ukrainian: триместр (uk) (tryméstr) m

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