trident

English

Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From Latin tridēns, from tri- (“three”) +‎ dēns (“tooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ̯dənt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

trident (plural tridents)

1. A three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork.

   Poseidon's trident

   • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, pages 703-704:

     I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.

2. (geometry) A curve of third order of the form:

   $xy+ax^{3}+bx^{2}+cx=d\,$

Synonyms

• (curve): trident curve

Derived terms

• impossible trident
• tridental
• tridentlike
• trident bat

Translations

three-pronged spear

• Albanian: tërfurk (sq) m
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: hiruhortz
• Bengali: ত্রিশূল (bn) (triśul)
• Breton: forh a dri biz
• Bulgarian: тризъбец m (trizǎbec)
• Catalan: trident (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三叉戟 (zh) (sānchājǐ)

• Crimean Tatar: trızub (Ukrainian national emblem)
• Czech: trojzubec m
• Dutch: drietand (nl) m
• Esperanto: tridento
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: atrain (fi), kolmikärki (fi)
• French: trident (fr) m
• Galician: tridente m
• Georgian: სამკაპი (samḳaṗi), სამკბილა (samḳbila)
• German: Dreizack (de) m
• Greek: τρίαινα (el) f (tríaina)

  Ancient: τρίαινα f (tríaina), θρῖναξ f (thrînax)

• Gujarati: ત્રિશૂળ (triśūḷ)
• Hindi: त्रिशूल (hi) (triśūl)
• Hungarian: háromágú szigony (hu), tridens
• Icelandic: þríforkur m
• Ido: tridento (io)
• Indonesian: trisula (id)
• Irish: trírinn f, adhal m
• Italian: tridente (it) m
• Japanese: 三叉槍 (sansasō), トライデント (toraidento)
• Kannada: ತ್ರಿಶೂಲ (kn) (triśūla)
• Khmer: ត្រីសូល៍ (treisol៍)
• Korean: 삼지창(三枝槍) (ko) (samjichang)
• Latin: fuscina f, tridēns m
• Latvian: trijzobs m
• Lithuanian: trišakis
• Macedonian: тризабец m (trizabec)
• Malay: serampang, trisula
• Malayalam: ത്രിശൂലം (ml) (triśūlaṁ)
• Marathi: त्रिशूळ (triśūḷ), त्रिशूल m (triśūl)
• Nepali: त्रिशूल (triśūl)
• Norwegian: trefork
• Occitan: trident m
• Persian: شل (fa) (šel)
• Polish: trójząb (pl) m
• Portuguese: tridente m
• Romanian: trident (ro) n
• Russian: трезу́бец (ru) m (trezúbec)
• Sanskrit: त्रिशूल (sa) m (triśūla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трозубац m

  Roman: trozubac (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ත්‍රිශූලය (triśūlaya)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: trizob (sl)
• Spanish: tridente (es) m
• Swahili: tridenti
• Swedish: treudd (sv)
• Telugu: త్రిశూలం (triśūlaṁ), త్రిశూలము (te) (triśūlamu)
• Thai: ตรีศูล (dtrii-sǔun)
• Turkish: trident
• Ukrainian: тризубець m (tryzubecʹ) (other tridents), тризуб m (tryzub) (Ukrainian national emblem)
• Vietnamese: đinh ba (vi)
• Welsh: tryfer f

See also

• trisula (Hindu trident)
• tryzub (Ukrainian trident)

Further reading

• Trident curve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dritten

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tridentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾiˈðen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [tɾiˈðent]

Noun

trident m (plural tridents)

1. trident

Further reading

• “trident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trident”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “trident” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trident” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.dɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

trident m (plural tridents)

1. trident

Further reading

• “trident”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trident, from Latin tridens.

Noun

trident n (plural tridente)

1. trident

Declension

Declension of trident

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) trident	tridentul	(niște) tridente	tridentele
genitive/dative	(unui) trident	tridentului	(unor) tridente	tridentelor
vocative	tridentule		tridentelor