Trinidad

See also: trinidad

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trinidad (“trinity”), named after the Holy Trinity by Columbus to fulfill a religious vow.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪnɪdæd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Trinidad

2. An island in the Caribbean, part of Trinidad and Tobago.
   • 2024 April 9, Steve Bennett, “This overlooked island has some of the Caribbean’s best beaches”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 April 2024:

     Down ‘D’ Islands, or DDI for short, makes it easy for visitors to island-hop around offshore parts of Trinidad that most Trinidadians don’t even know.

3. A place in the United States:
   1. A home rule municipality, the county seat of Las Animas County, Colorado.
   2. A city in Humboldt County, California.
      • 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 159:

        ‘Some trouble on the road up north around Trinidad.’

   3. A minor city in Henderson County, Texas.
   4. An unincorporated community and ghost town in Grant County, Washington.
   5. A neighbourhood in north-east Washington, D.C..
4. A number of places in other countries:
   1. A city, the capital of Beni department, Bolivia.
   2. A town and municipality in Casanare department, Colombia.
   3. A town in Sancti Spíritus province, Cuba.
   4. A district in Itapúa department, Paraguay.
   5. A municipality in Bohol province, Philippines.
   6. A city, the capital of Flores department, Uruguay.

Derived terms

• Trinidad and Tobago
• Trinidadian

Translations

an island of the Caribbean

• Antillean Creole: Twinité f
• Arabic: ترينيداد (trīnīdād)
• Catalan: Trinitat f
• Cherokee: ᏟᏂᏕᏗ (tlinidedi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特立尼达岛 (zh) (Tèlìnídádǎo)

• Estonian: Trinidad
• French: Trinité (fr) f
• Galician: Trinidade f
• Greek: Τρινιδάδ n (Trinidád), Τρινιντάντ n (Trinintánt)
• Hindi: त्रिनिदाद m (trinidād)
• Hungarian: Trinidad (hu)
• Italian: Trinidad f, Trinità (it) f
• Japanese: トリニダード (torinidādo)
• Korean: 트리니다드 (teurinidadeu)
• Latvian: Trinidāda f
• Lithuanian: Trinidãdas m
• Macedonian: Три́нидад m (Trínidad)
• Marathi: ट्रिनिडाड (ṭriniḍāḍ)
• Occitan: Trinitat f
• Russian: Тринида́д (ru) m (Trinidád)
• Sardinian: Trinidad f, Trinidade f
• Spanish: Trinidad (es) f

Anagrams

• tindarid

Estonian

Proper noun

Trinidad

1. Trinidad

See also

• Trinidad ja Tobago

Spanish

Etymology

From trinidad (“trinity”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾiniˈdad/ [t̪ɾi.niˈð̞að̞]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: Tri‧ni‧dad

Proper noun

Trinidad f

1. Trinidad (island)
2. a female given name, referring to the Holy Trinity

Derived terms

• Trinidad y Tobago
• trinidadiano

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tri-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *trís

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *triznos

Latin trīnus

Latin -tās

Latin trīnitātemslbor.

Spanish trinidadder.

Tagalog Trinidad

Derived from Spanish trinidad, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin trīnitātem, from trīnus (“triple, threefold”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tɾiniˈdad/ [t̪ɾɪ.n̪ɪˈd̪ad̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: Tri‧ni‧dad
• Homophone: trinidad

Proper noun

Trinidád (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜈᜒᜇᜇ᜔)

1. alternative letter-case form of trinidad
2. Trinidad (an island of Trinidad and Tobago)
3. a municipality of Bohol, Philippines
4. (Baguio) ellipsis of La Trinidad

Further reading

• “Trinidad”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Vietnamese

Proper noun

Trinidad

1. alternative form of Tri-ni-đát

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English Trinidad, from Spanish Trinidad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪnɪdad/, /ˌtrɪnɪˈdaːd/

Proper noun

Trinidad f

1. Trinidad (island)

Derived terms

• tanagr pêr Trinidad (“Trinidad euphonia”)
• Trinidad a Thobago (“Trinidad and Tobago”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Trinidad

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Trinidad	Drinidad	Nhrinidad	Thrinidad

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “Trinidad”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[2], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN