trident

English

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Etymology

PIE word
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From Latin tridēns, from tri- (“three”) +‎ dēns (“tooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ̯dənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

trident (plural tridents)

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

   Poseidon's trident

   • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, pages 703-704:

     I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.

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

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

Synonyms

• (curve): trident curve

Derived terms

• impossible trident
• tridental
• trident bat
• Trident Board
• tridentlike

Translations

three-pronged spear — see also pitchfork

Albanian: tërfurk (sq) m Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: hiruhortz Bengali: ত্রিশূল (bn) (triśul) Breton: forh a dri biz Bulgarian: тризъбец m (trizǎbec) Catalan: trident (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 三叉戟 (zh) (sānchājǐ), 三叉槍 / 三叉枪 (sānchāqiāng) Crimean Tatar: trızub (Ukrainian national emblem) Czech: trojzubec m Dutch: drietand (nl) m Esperanto: tridento Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: atrain (fi), kolmikärki (fi) French: trident (fr) m Galician: tridente m Georgian: სამკაპი (ka) (samḳaṗi), სამკბილა (samḳbila) German: Dreizack (de) m Greek: τρίαινα (el) f (tríaina) Ancient: τρίαινα f (tríaina), θρῖναξ f (thrînax) Gujarati: ત્રિશૂળ (triśūḷ) Hindi: त्रिशूल (hi) (triśūl) Hungarian: háromágú szigony (hu), tridens Icelandic: þríforkur m Ido: tridento (io) Indonesian: trisula (id) Irish: trírinn f, adhal m Italian: tridente (it) m Japanese: 三叉槍 (sansasō), トライデント (toraidento) Kannada: ತ್ರಿಶೂಲ (kn) (triśūla) Khmer: ត្រីសូល៍ (treisol៍), ច្បូក (km) (cbouk) Korean: 삼지창(三枝槍) (ko) (samjichang) Latin: fuscina f, tridēns m Latvian: trijzobs m Lithuanian: trišakis Macedonian: тризабец m (trizabec) Malay: serampang, trisula Malayalam: ത്രിശൂലം (ml) (triśūlaṁ) Marathi: त्रिशूळ (triśūḷ), त्रिशूल m (triśūl) Nepali: त्रिशूल (triśūl) Norwegian: trefork Occitan: trident m Persian: شل (fa) (šel) Polish: trójząb (pl) m Portuguese: tridente m Romanian: trident (ro) n Russian: трезу́бец (ru) m (trezúbec) Sanskrit: त्रिशूल (sa) m (triśūla) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трозубац m Roman: trozubac (sh) m Sinhalese: ත්‍රිශූලය (triśūlaya) Slovak: trojzub m Slovene: trizob (sl) Spanish: tridente (es) m Swahili: tridenti Swedish: treudd (sv) c Telugu: త్రిశూలం (triśūlaṁ), త్రిశూలము (te) (triśūlamu) Thai: ตรีศูล (dtrii-sǔun) Turkish: trident Ukrainian: тризубець m (tryzubecʹ) (other tridents), тризуб m (tryzub) (Ukrainian national emblem) Vietnamese: đinh ba (vi), ba chĩa (vi) Welsh: tryfer f

See also

• trisula (Hindu trident)
• tryzub (Ukrainian trident)

Further reading

• Trident curve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dritten

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

trident

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tridentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾiˈðen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [tɾiˈðent]

Noun

trident m (plural tridents)

1. trident

Further reading

• “trident”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trident”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

trident

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.dɑ̃/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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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.

Romanian

Romanian Wikipedia has an article on:

trident

Wikipedia ^ro

Etymology

Borrowed from French trident, from Latin tridēns.

Noun

trident n (plural tridente)

1. trident

Declension

Declension of trident

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	trident	tridentul		tridente	tridentele
genitive-dative	trident	tridentului		tridente	tridentelor
vocative	tridentule			tridentelor