Trinity

Trinity

See also: trinity

English

Etymology

See trinity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪ.nɪ.ti/
• Hyphenation: Tri‧ni‧ty
• Rhymes: -ɪnɪti
• Homophone: trinity

Proper noun

Trinity

Christian representation of the Trinity.

1. (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
   • 1836, Thomas Robbins, A Discourse on the Doctrine of the Trinity, page 17:

     He speaks distinctly of the Trinity of the godhead in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

   • 1846, John Wilson, Scripture Proofs and Scriptural Illustrations of Unitarianism, page 149:

     From all eternity Jesus Christ existed, and Jesus Christ was with God the Father, the first person of the Trinity; and Jesus Christ was God the Son, the second person of the Trinity.

2. A female given name from English used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent.
3. A male given name
4. A small coastal town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
5. A town in Alabama.
6. A city in North Carolina.
7. A city and town in Texas.
8. (UK, Ireland, law, education) Ellipsis of Trinity term.
9. (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Trinity College, Cambridge.
10. (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Trinity College, Oxford.
11. The world's first nuclear explosion: a nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico.

Synonyms

• Triunity
• Threeness

Derived terms

• Holy Trinity
• Trinity County
• Trinity Sunday
• Trinitytide

Related terms

• Antitrinitarian, antitrinitarian
• Nontrinitarian, nontrinitarian
• Trinitarian, trinitarian

Translations

Christianity: three persons of the Godhead

Afrikaans: drie-eenheid Albanian: triadhë f, trinia f Arabic: اَلثَّالُوث‎ m (aṯ-ṯālūṯ), اَلثَّالُوث الْأَقْدَس‎ m (aṯ-ṯālūṯ al-ʾaqdas) Armenian: Երրորդություն (Errordutʿyun) Basque: hirutasun Belarusian: тро́іца f (tróica), Тро́іца f (Tróica) Bulgarian: Тро́ица f (Tróica) Caló: Trimurtí f Catalan: trinitat Chinese: Cantonese: 三位一體, 三位一体 (saam1 wai3 jat1 tai2) Mandarin: 三位一體／三位一体 (zh) (Sānwèiyītǐ) Min Nan: 三位一體, 三位一体 (Sam-ūi-it-thé) Czech: trojice (cs) f Danish: treenighed c Dutch: drievuldigheid f Esperanto: Triunuo Estonian: kolmainsus (et) Faroese: tríeindin f Finnish: kolminaisuus (fi), kolmiyhteys (fi) French: Trinité (fr) f Galician: Trindade (gl) f Georgian: სამება (sameba) German: Dreieinigkeit (de) f, Dreifaltigkeit (de) f, Trinität (de) f Greek: Αγία Τριάδα (el) f (Agía Triáda) Ancient: τριάς f (triás) Hebrew: השילוש הקדוש‎ (hashilúsh hakadósh) Hindi: त्रित्व (tritva) Hungarian: Szentháromság (hu) Icelandic: þrenning f Indonesian: Tritunggal (id) Irish: Tríonóid f Italian: Trinità (it) f Japanese: 三位一体 (ja) (さんみいったい, sanmi-ittai) Kazakh: тәслис (täslis) Korean: 삼위일체(三位一體) (ko) (samwiilche) Latin: trīnitās f, Trīnitās f Latvian: trīsvienība f Lithuanian: trejybė f Macedonian: тројство n (trojstvo) Malayalam: ത്രിത്വം (ml) (tritvaṃ) Maltese: trinità mqaddsa f Maori: Tokotoru Middle English: trinite Norman: Trinn'té f Norwegian: Bokmål: treenighet m or f Nynorsk: treeininga f Old English: þrines f Old Occitan: trinitat Persian: تثلیث‎ (fa) (taslis) Polish: Trójca Święta (pl) f Portuguese: tríade (pt) f, trindade (pt) f Romanian: Sfânta Treime (ro) f, treimea divină f, trinitate (ro) f Russian: тро́ица (ru) f (tróica), Тро́ица (ru) f (Tróica) Samoan: Tolu Tasi Paia Scots: treenity Scottish Gaelic: Trianaid f, Triùir an Aon f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тројство n Roman: trójstvo (sh) n Slovak: trojica f Slovene: trojica f Spanish: trinidad (es) f Swahili: utatu (sw) Swedish: treenighet (sv) c Tagalog: Santatlo Turkish: teslis (tr), üçleme (tr) Ukrainian: трі́йця f (tríjcja), Трі́йця (uk) f (Tríjcja) Vietnamese: Chúa Ba Ngôi, Tam Vị Nhất Thể Volapük: Kilät (vo) Wallisian: Tahitolu tapu Welsh: Trindod m West Frisian: trije-ienheid

female given name

Basque: Irune (eu) Galician: Trindade (gl) f Russian: Три́нити f (Tríniti) Spanish: Trinidad (es) f

Further reading

• Trinity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia