trimester

See also: Trimester

English
WOTD – 31 July 2010

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/, /tɹaɪˈmɛs.tə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/, /tɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Noun

trimester (plural trimesters)

  1. A period of three months or about three months.
    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.
    The school operates on a trimester schedule.

Hypernyms
  • (term of academic year): term

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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

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