trimester

See also: Trimester

English

WOTD – 31 July 2010

Etymology

PIE word
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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): /ˈt(ʃ)ɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/, /t(ʃ)ɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/

  • Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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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.

   Synonym: trisem

   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

Derived terms

• fourth trimester
• midtrimester
• trimestral

Translations

period of three months

• Arabic: أُثْلُوث (ʔuṯlūṯ)
• Armenian: եռամսյակ (hy) (eṙamsyak), քառորդ (hy) (kʻaṙord)
• Bulgarian: тримесечие n (trimesečie)
• Catalan: trimestre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三月期 (sānyuèqī)

• Czech: trimestr (cs)
• Dutch: kwartaal (nl), trimester (nl) n
• 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 (ʔuṯlūṯ)
• Armenian: քառորդ (hy) (kʻaṙord)
• Catalan: trimestre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學期 / 学期 (zh) (xuéqī)

• Dutch: trimester (nl) n
• Esperanto: trimestro
• Finnish: lukukausi (fi)
• Georgian: ტრიმესტრი (ṭrimesṭri)
• 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

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French trimestre, from Latin trimestris.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

trimester n (plural trimesters, diminutive trimestertje n)

1. trimester (period of three months)

   Synonym: kwartaal

   Coordinate terms: tertiaal, quadrimester, halfjaar, semester

Descendants

• → Indonesian: trimester

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /triˈmɛstər/ [t̪riˈmɛs.t̪ər]
• Rhymes: -ɛstər
• Syllabification: tri‧mes‧ter

Noun

trimèstêr (plural trimester-trimester)

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 [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French trimestre, from Latin trimēstris.

Noun

trimester c

1. trimester

Declension

Declension of trimester

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	trimester	trimesters
	definite	trimestern	trimesterns
plural	indefinite	trimestrar	trimestrars
	definite	trimestrarna	trimestrarnas

References

• “trimester”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “trimester”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)