trapeze

See also: Trapeze and trapèze

English

Woman on a trapeze.

Etymology

From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈpiːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

trapeze (plural trapezes)

1. (archaic, geometry) A trapezium.
2. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
3. (anatomy) The trapezium bone.
   • 2013, World Health Organization, Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound, volume 2, page 463:

     […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.

4. A certain yo-yo trick.
   • 2011, Karen Krossing, The Yo-Yo Prophet, page 81:

     I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.

Derived terms

• trapeze artist
• trapeze dress
• trapezist

Translations

trapezium — see trapezium

swinging horizontal bar

• Armenian: ճոճաձող (hy) (čočajoġ)
• Bulgarian: трапе́ц (bg) m (trapéc)
• Catalan: trapezi (ca) m
• Czech: visutá hrazda (cs)
• Esperanto: trapezo
• Finnish: trapetsi (fi)
• French: trapèze (fr) m
• Galician: trapecio (gl) m
• German: Trapez (de) n
• Hungarian: trapéz (hu)
• Ido: trapezo (io)
• Italian: trapezio (it) m
• Japanese: 空中ブランコ (ja) (kūchūburanko)
• Macedonian: трапез m (trapez)
• Polish: trapez (pl) m
• Portuguese: trapézio (pt) m
• Romanian: trapez (ro) n
• Russian: трапе́ция (ru) f (trapécija)
• Spanish: trapecio (es) m
• Swedish: trapets (sv) c
• Turkish: trapez (tr)

Verb

trapeze (third-person singular simple present trapezes, present participle trapezing, simple past and past participle trapezed)

1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.

Further reading

• Trapeze in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Trapeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia