trilogy

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Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

Learned borrowing from Latin trilogia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τριλογία (trilogía, “trilogy”). Morphologically from tri- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪləd͡ʒi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

trilogy (plural trilogies)

1. A set of three connected works, usually dramas, literary pieces, films, or musical compositions, all related by theme, characters, or setting.
   • 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:

     That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

   • 2020 September 9, Brian Lowry, “Daisy Ridley reawakens the ‘Star Wars’ debate over Rey’s lineage”, in CNN‎:

     Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.

Derived terms

• Daubert trilogy
• trilogic
• trilogical
• trilogist
• trilogize

Related terms

• dilogy (2)
• tetralogy (4)
• pentalogy (5)
• hexalogy (6)
• heptalogy (7)
• octalogy (8)
• ennealogy (9)
• decalogy (10)
• polylogy (2+)

Translations

collection of three works

Arabic: ثُلَاثِيَّة f (ṯulāṯiyya) Armenian: եռապատում (hy) (eṙapatum) Bulgarian: трило́гия f (trilógija) Catalan: trilogia f Chinese: Mandarin: 三部曲 (zh) (sānbùqǔ) Danish: trilogi (da) c Dutch: trilogie (nl) f, drieluik (nl) n Esperanto: trilogio Faroese: tríverk n, tríleikur m, trilogi f Finnish: trilogia (fi) French: trilogie (fr) f Galician: triloxía f German: Trilogie (de) f Greek: τριλογία (el) f (trilogía) Hebrew: טרילוגיה (he) Hungarian: trilógia (hu) Icelandic: þríleikur m, trílógía f Italian: trilogia (it) f Japanese: 三部作 (ja) (さんぶさく, sanbusaku) Korean: 삼부작(三部作) (ko) (sambujak) Latin: trilogia Malay: trilogi Norwegian: Bokmål: trilogi (no) m Nynorsk: trilogi m Occitan: trilogia (oc) f Polish: trylogia (pl) f, trójksiąg m Portuguese: trilogia (pt) f Russian: трило́гия (ru) f (trilógija) Spanish: trilogía (es) f Swedish: trilogi (sv) c Turkish: üçleme (tr), triloji (tr) Yiddish: טרילאָגיע f (trilogye)