trimester

trimester

See also: Trimester

English

WOTD – 31 July 2010

Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/, /tɹ(a)ɪˈmɛs.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/, /tɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Noun

trimester (plural trimesters)

1. A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter.

   She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.

2. One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester.

   The school operates on a trimester schedule.

Hypernyms

• (term of academic year): term

Holonyms

• (term of academic year): academic year

Coordinate terms

• (term of an academic year): quarter, semester

Translations

period of three months

Arabic: أُثْلُوث‎ (ʾuṯlūṯ) Armenian: եռամսյակ (hy) (eṙamsyak), քառորդ (hy) (kʿaṙord) Bulgarian: тримесечие n (trimesečie) Catalan: trimestre (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 三月期 (sānyuèqī) Czech: trimestr (cs) Esperanto: trimestro Finnish: kolmekuukautisjakso, kolmannes (fi) (of pregnancy) French: trimestre (fr) m Galician: trimestre (gl) m German: Trimester (de) n Hungarian: trimeszter (hu) Indonesian: trimester, kuartal (id) Irish: ráithe f Italian: trimestre (it) Khmer: ត្រីមាស (trəymiəh) Latin: trimestris Norwegian: trimester n Polish: trymestr (pl) m Portuguese: trimestre (pt) m Romanian: trimestru (ro) n Russian: триме́стр (ru) m (triméstr), кварта́л (ru) m (kvartál) (quarter of a year) Slovak: trimester Spanish: trimestre (es) m Turkish: trimestır, çeyrekyıl

term of academic year

Arabic: أُثْلُوث‎ (ʾuṯlūṯ) Armenian: քառորդ (hy) (kʿaṙord) Catalan: trimestre (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 學期／学期 (zh) (xuéqī) Esperanto: trimestro Finnish: lukukausi (fi) Hungarian: trimeszter (hu) Japanese: 学期 (ja) (がっき, gakki) Polish: trymestr (pl) m Portuguese: trimestre (pt) m Romanian: trimestru (ro) n Russian: триме́стр (ru) m (triméstr) Turkish: trimestır, çeyrekyıl Ukrainian: триме́стр m (tryméstr)

Anagrams

• remitters, trimeters, trimetres

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Danish

Noun

trimester n (singular definite trimestret or trimesteret, plural indefinite trimestre)

1. trimester

Declension

Declension of trimester

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trimester	trimestret trimesteret	trimestre	trimestrene
genitive	trimesters	trimestrets trimesterets	trimestres	trimestrenes

References

• “trimester” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch trimester, from French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [triˈmɛstər]
• Hyphenation: tri‧mès‧têr

Noun

trimèstêr (first-person possessive trimesterku, second-person possessive trimestermu, third-person possessive trimesternya)

1. trimester: a period of three months or about three months.

   Synonyms: kuartal, triwulan

   1. (obstetrics) divisions of pregnancy period, each lasting for approximately 3 months.

See also

• caturwulan
• kuartal
• semester
• triwulan

 

Further reading

• “trimester” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French trimestre, from Latin trimēstris.

Noun

trimester c

1. trimester

Declension

Declension of trimester
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	trimester	trimestern	trimestrar	trimestrarna
Genitive	trimesters	trimesterns	trimestrars	trimestrarnas

References

• trimester in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trimester in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)