Trinidad

See also: trinidad

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Trinidad

1. An island in the Caribbean, part of Trinidad and Tobago.
2. 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.
3. A number of places in other countries:
   1. A city, the capital of the 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 the Flores department, Uruguay.

Derived terms

• Trinidad and Tobago

Translations

an island of the Caribbean

• Antillean Creole: Trinidad
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特立尼达岛 (zh) (Tèlìnídádǎo)

• Estonian: Trinidad
• French: Trinité (fr) f
• Galician: Trinidade f
• Hungarian: Trinidad (hu)
• Japanese: トリニダード島 (torinidādotō)
• Latvian: Trinidāda f
• Macedonian: Три́нидад m (Trínidad)
• Marathi: ट्रिनिडाड (ṭriniḍāḍ)
• Russian: Тринида́д (ru) m (Trinidád)
• Spanish: Trinidad (es) f

Anagrams

• tindarid

Estonian

Proper noun

Trinidad

1. Trinidad

See also

• Trinidad ja Tobago

Spanish

Etymology

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

Borrowed from Spanish trinidad, from Latin trinitās.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tɾiniˈdad/ [tɾɪ.nɪˈdad]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: Tri‧ni‧dad

Proper noun

Trinidád (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜈᜒᜇᜇ᜔)

1. Trinidad (an island in Trinidad and Tobago)
2. Alternative letter-case form of trinidad

Further reading

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