tridente

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tridentem.

Noun

tridente m (plural tridentes)

1. trident

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tridentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /triˈdɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: tri‧dèn‧te

Noun

tridente m (plural tridenti)

1. trident

Further reading

• tridente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

tridente

1. ablative singular of tridēns

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tridentem, from trēs (“three”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes) dēns (“tooth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈdẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾiˈdẽ.tɨ/ [tɾiˈðẽ.tɨ]

Noun

tridente m (plural tridentes)

1. trident (three pronged spear)

Spanish

tridente

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tridentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾiˈdente/ [t̪ɾiˈð̞ẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: tri‧den‧te

Adjective

tridente m or f (masculine and feminine plural tridentes)

1. having three teeth

Noun

tridente m (plural tridentes)

1. trident (a three-pronged spear)
2. (Andalusia, Murcia) harpoon

   Synonym: arpón

3. Tridens grass.

Further reading

• “tridente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28