trone

See also: Trone, troné, trône, and trôné

English

Etymology 1

Compare French trogne (“a belly”).

Noun

trone (plural trones)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A small drain.

Etymology 2

From Late Latin trona, from Latin trutina (“a balance”).

Noun

trone (plural trones)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A steelyard.
  2. (Britain, dialect, Scotland, obsolete) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “seat, throne”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /troːnə/, [ˈtˢʁ̥oːnə]

Noun

trone c (singular definite tronen, plural indefinite troner)

  1. throne

Inflection

Verb

trone (imperative tron, infinitive at trone, present tense troner, past tense tronede, perfect tense har tronet)

  1. to throne

Dutch

Verb

trone

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tronen

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

trone (plural trones)

  1. throne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair”, “throne”).

Noun

trone f, m (definite singular trona or tronen, indefinite plural troner, definite plural tronene)

  1. (monarchy) throne
  2. (biblical) throne; the third highest order of angels

Derived terms

Verb

trone (imperative tron, present tense troner, simple past and past participle trona or tronet)

  1. To sit in a manner which commands obedience; to sit in a dominating way (as if on a throne).

Synonyms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair, throne”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²truːnə/

Noun

trone f (definite singular trona, indefinite plural troner, definite plural tronene)

  1. a throne

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair”, “throne”).

Noun

trone m (oblique plural trones, nominative singular trones, nominative plural trone)

  1. throne

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trone, supplement)
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