triton
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From trito- + -on. From tritium, from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”).
Noun
[edit]triton (plural tritons)
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- H+ (“hydrogen ion”)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (bare nuclei of hydrogen): proton (“hydrogen-1 nucleus”), deuteron (“hydrogen-2 nucleus”), triton
- H+, p (“protium ion”)
- D+ (“deuterium ion”)
- h (“helium-3 nucleus”)
Translations
[edit]tritium nucleus
|
Etymology 2
[edit]From Triton, who blows such a seashell like a trumpet.
Noun
[edit]triton (plural tritons)
- Any of several marine gastropods of the family Ranellidae, which have a pointed spiral shell.
Translations
[edit]marine gastropods
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: tri‧ton
Noun
[edit]triton m (plural tritons)
Synonyms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin Trītōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρίτων (Trítōn).
Noun
[edit]triton m (plural tritons)
Etymology 2
[edit]Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tritonus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τρίτονος (trítonos). By surface analysis, tri- + ton.
Noun
[edit]triton m (plural tritons)
- (music) tritone
- Synonym: quarte augmentée
Further reading
[edit]- “triton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]triton m (plural tritoni)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | triton | tritonul | tritoni | tritonii | |
genitive-dative | triton | tritonului | tritoni | tritonilor | |
vocative | tritonule | tritonilor |
Categories:
- English terms prefixed with trito-
- English terms suffixed with -on
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Subatomic particles
- English eponyms
- en:Littorinimorphs
- en:Three
- en:Tritium
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Physics
- nl:Three
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French learned borrowings from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Zoology
- French terms with collocations
- fr:Mythology
- fr:Fantasy
- fr:Physics
- French terms borrowed from Medieval Latin
- French learned borrowings from Medieval Latin
- French terms derived from Medieval Latin
- French terms prefixed with tri-
- fr:Music
- fr:Newts
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- ro:Salamanders