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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/, /tɹaɪˈmɛs.tə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/, /tɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

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.

Hypernyms

• (term of academic year): term

Holonyms

• (term of academic year): academic year

Coordinate terms

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

Translations

period of three months

• Arabic: أُثْلُوث (ʔuṯlūṯ)
• Armenian: եռամսյակ (hy) (eṙamsyak), քառորդ (hy) (kʻaṙord)
• Catalan: trimestre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三月期 (sānyuèqī)

• Czech: trimestr (cs)
• Finnish: kolmekuukautisjakso, kolmannes (of pregnancy)
• French: trimestre (fr)
• Galician: trimestre (gl) m
• German: Trimester (de)
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• Hungarian: trimeszter (hu)
• Italian: trimestre (it)
• Latin: trimestris
• Norwegian: trimester n
• Portuguese: trimestre (pt) m
• Romanian: trimestru (ro) n
• Russian: триме́стр (ru) m (triméstr); кварта́л (ru) m (kvartál) (quarter of a year)
• Slovak: trimester
• Spanish: trimestre (es)
• Turkish: trimestır, çeyrekyıl

term of academic year

• Arabic: أُثْلُوث (ʔuṯlūṯ)
• Armenian: քառորդ (hy) (kʻaṙord)
• Catalan: trimestre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學期／学期 (zh) (xuéqī), 学期 (zh) (xuéqī)

• Finnish: lukukausi (fi)
• Hungarian: trimeszter (hu)
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• Japanese: 学期 (ja) (がっき, gakki)
• Polish: trymestr (pl) m
• Portuguese: trimestre (pt) m
• Romanian: trimestru (ro) n
• Russian: триме́стр (ru) m (triméstr)
• Turkish: trimestır, çeyrekyıl
• Ukrainian: триме́стр m (tryméstr)

Anagrams

• remitters, trimeters, trimetres

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Danish

Noun

trimester n (singular definite trimestret or trimesteret, plural indefinite trimestre)

1. trimester

Declension

Declension of trimester

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trimester	trimestret trimesteret	trimestre	trimestrene
genitive	trimesters	trimestrets trimesterets	trimestres	trimestrenes

References

• “trimester” in Den Danske Ordbog