Trier
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: trier
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Triers (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From German Trier, from Latin Treverorum. Ultimately from the Roman name of the settlement, Augusta Trēverōrum, taken from the Gaulish name of a local tribe of Gauls. Compare also the French name for the city, Trèves.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /tɹɪɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹɪə/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Proper noun
[edit]Trier (countable and uncountable, plural Triers)
- A city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the banks of the Moselle river.
- A habitational surname from German.
Synonyms
[edit]- Treves (obsolete)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]city in Germany
|
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Trier is the 37646th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 591 individuals. Trier is most common among White (94.75%) individuals.
See also
[edit]Names of Trier in different languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Trier”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin (Augusta) Trēverōrum, named for the Gaulish Trēverī, a local tribe of Gauls.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Trier n (proper noun, genitive Triers or (optionally with an article) Trier)
- Trier (an independent city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; also serves as the administrative seat of Trier-Saarburg district, which however does not include the city)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: Trier
Proper noun
[edit]Trier m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Triers or (with an article) Trier, feminine genitive Trier, plural Triers or Trier)
- a surname transferred from the place name
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Gaulish
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Cities in Rhineland-Palatinate
- en:Cities in Germany
- en:Places in Rhineland-Palatinate
- en:Places in Germany
- English surnames
- English surnames from German
- German terms derived from Latin
- German terms derived from Gaulish
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Cities in Rhineland-Palatinate
- de:Cities in Germany
- de:Places in Rhineland-Palatinate
- de:Places in Germany
- German masculine nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German nouns with multiple genders
- German surnames
- German surnames from place names