trental

English

Etymology

From Latin trentale, from triginta (“thirty”), akin to tres (“three”). Compare Old French trentel. See three, and compare trigintal.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Noun

trental (plural trentals)

  1. A Roman Catholic office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.
    • Edmund Spenser
      their trentals and their shrifts
  2. (by extension) A dirge or elegy.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trental in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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