trident

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tridēns, from trēs (“three”) + dēns (“tooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ̯dənt/

Noun

trident (plural tridents)

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

   Poseidon's trident

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

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

Synonyms

• (curve): trident curve

Derived terms

• tridental
• tridentlike
• trident bat

Translations

three-pronged spear

• Basque: hiruhortz
• Bengali: ত্রিশূল (triśul)
• Breton: forh a dri biz
• Bulgarian: тризъбец m (trizǎbec)
• Catalan: trident (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三叉戟 (zh) (sānchajǐ)

• Czech: trojzubec m
• Dutch: drietand (nl) m
• Esperanto: tridento
• Finnish: atrain (fi)
• French: trident (fr) m
• Galician: tridente m
• Georgian: სამკაპი (samḳaṗi), სამკბილა (samḳbila)
• German: Dreizack (de) m
• Greek: τρίαινα (el) f (tríaina)

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

• Gujarati: ત્રિશૂળ (triśūḷ)
• Hindi: त्रिशूल (hi) (triśūl)
• Hungarian: háromágú szigony (hu)
• Icelandic: þríforkur m
• Ido: tridento (io)
• Indonesian: trisula (id)
• Irish: trírinn f, adhal m
• Italian: tridente (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 三叉槍
• Kannada: ತ್ರಿಶೂಲ (kn) (triśūla)
• Korean: 삼지창 (ko) (samjichang)
• Lithuanian: trišakis
• Macedonian: тризабец m (trizabec)
• Malay: serampang
• Malayalam: ത്രിശൂലം (ml) (triśūlaṁ)
• Marathi: त्रिशूळ (triśūḷ)
• Nepali: त्रिशूल (triśūl)
• Norwegian: trefork
• Occitan: trident m
• Polish: trójząb (pl) m
• Portuguese: tridente m
• Russian: трезу́бец (ru) m (trezúbec)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трозубац m

  Roman: trozubac (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ත්‍රිශූලය (triśūlaya)
• Slovene: trizob (sl)
• Spanish: tridente (es) m
• Swahili: tridenti
• Swedish: treudd (sv)
• Telugu: త్రిశూలం (triśūlaṁ)
• Thai: ตรีศูล (dtrii-sǔun)
• Ukrainian: тризубець m (tryzubecʹ)

References

• Wikipedia: Template:pedialink

Anagrams

• dritten

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tridēns.

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.

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

trident m (plural tridents)

1. trident

Further reading

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