trilobite

English

a trilobite fossil

Etymology

tri- +‎ lobe +‎ -ite

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.ləˌbaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

trilobite (plural trilobites)

1. An extinct arthropod of the class Trilobita, whose body had three large lobes.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 209:

     When you look at a Precambrian trilobite in the lobby of a New York bank, it is difficult to speculate about its primeval environment.

Derived terms

• Barr trilobite
• trilobite beetle
• trilobitelike

 

Translations

member of the class Trilobita

• Assamese: তিনিভগীয়া পোক (tinibhogia pük)
• Catalan: trilobit m
• Chinese: 三葉蟲／三叶虫 (zh) (sānyèchóng), 三叶虫 (zh) (sānyèchóng)
• Czech: trilobit m
• Esperanto: trilobulo
• Finnish: trilobiitti (fi)
• French: trilobite (fr) m
• German: Trilobit (de) m
• Greek: τριλοβίτης m (trilovítis)
• Hebrew: טרילוביט f (trilobit)
• Italian: trilobite m
• Japanese: 三葉虫 (ja) (さんようちゅう, san’yōchū)
• Korean: 삼엽충(三葉蟲) (ko) (samyeopchung)
• Polish: trylobit (pl) m
• Portuguese: trilobita m, trilobite m, trilobito m
• Romanian: trilobit (ro) m
• Russian: трилоби́т (ru) m (trilobít)
• Slovene: trilobit (sl) m, trokrpar m
• Spanish: trilobite (es)
• Swedish: trilobit (sv) c
• Tongan: vahesinotolu
• Ukrainian: трилобі́т m (trylobít)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.lɔ.bit/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

trilobite m (plural trilobites)

1. trilobite

Further reading

• “trilobite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tri.loˈbi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: tri‧lo‧bì‧te

Noun

trilobite m (plural trilobiti)

1. trilobite

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾi.loˈbi.t͡ʃi/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾi.luˈbi.tɨ/ [tɾi.luˈβi.tɨ]

• Hyphenation: tri‧lo‧bi‧te

Noun

trilobite f (plural trilobites)

1. European Portuguese form standard spelling of trilobita.