triode

See also: tríode and Triode

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tréyes

Proto-Italic *trēs

Latin trēsder.

Latin tri-der.

English tri-

Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.

Proto-Indo-European *sodós?

Proto-Hellenic *hodós

Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)bor.

English -ode

English triode

From tri- +‎ -ode.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.əʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.oʊd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəʊd

Noun

triode (plural triodes)

1. (electronics) A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible.

Related terms

• diode
• pentode

Translations

thermionic valve

• Bashkir: триод (triod)
• Bulgarian: триод m (triod)
• Catalan: tríode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三極管 / 三极管 (zh) (sānjíguǎn)

• Czech: trioda (cs) f
• Danish: triode c
• Dutch: triode (nl) f
• Finnish: triodi
• French: triode (fr) f
• Galician: tríodo m
• German: Triode f
• Hungarian: trióda (hu)
• Italian: triodo (it) m
• Japanese: 三極管 (さんきょくかん, sankyokukan)
• Kazakh: триод (triod)
• Kyrgyz: триод (triod)
• Macedonian: триода (mk) (trioda)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: triode m

  Nynorsk: triode m

• Polish: trioda (pl) f
• Portuguese: tríodo m
• Romanian: triodă (ro) f
• Russian: трио́д (ru) m (triód)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трио́да f

  Latin: trióda (sh) f

• Spanish: triodo (es) m
• Swedish: triod (sv) c
• Tagalog: talundas
• Vietnamese: ống ba cực

Anagrams

• doiter, dotier, editor, rioted, tie rod, tierod

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English triode.

Noun

triode c (singular definite trioden, plural indefinite trioder)

1. (electronics) triode

Declension

Declension of triode

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	triode	trioden	trioder	trioderne
genitive	triodes	triodens	trioders	triodernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English triode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /triˈjoːdə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tri‧o‧de

Noun

triode f (plural trioden or triodes, diminutive triodetje n)

1. (electronics) triode

Further reading

• “triode” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “triode”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English triode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.jɔd/

• Audio (France):

  (file)

Noun

triode f (plural triodes)

1. (electronics) triode

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English triode.

Noun

triode m (definite singular trioden, indefinite plural trioder, definite plural triodene)

1. (electronics) triode

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English triode.

Noun

triode m (definite singular trioden, indefinite plural triodar, definite plural triodane)

1. (electronics) triode