trident

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ̯dənt/

Noun

trident (plural tridents)

A three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork.
Poseidon's trident
(geometry) A curve of third order of the form:
$xy+ax^{3}+bx^{2}+cx=d\,$

Synonyms

(curve): trident curve

Derived terms

Translations

three-pronged spear

Basque: hiruhortz
Breton: forh a dri biz
Bulgarian: тризъбец m (trizăbets)
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)
Hungarian: háromágú szigony (hu)
Icelandic: þríforkur m
Ido: tridento (io)
Indonesian: trisula (id)
Irish: trírinn f, adhal m

Italian: tridente (it) m
Japanese: 三叉槍
Korean: 삼지창 (ko) (samjichang)
Lithuanian: trišakis
Macedonian: тризабец m (trízabec)
Malay: serampang
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
Slovene: trizob (sl)
Spanish: tridente (es) m
Swahili: tridenti
Swedish: treudd (sv)
Thai: ตรีศูล (dtrii-sǔun)
Ukrainian: тризубець m (tryzubets)

References

Wikipedia: Trident curve

Anagrams

dritten

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tridēns.

Noun

trident m (plural tridents)

trident

French

Noun

trident m (plural tridents)

trident

Further reading

“trident” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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