triduum

Borrowed from Latin trīduum, from trēs (“three”) + diēs (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪ.dju.əm/, /ˈtraɪ.dju.əm/

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triduum (plural triduums or tridua)

1. A period of three days (especially in Roman Catholic liturgy).
   • 2023 April 8, Esau McCaulley, “On Hope, Hate and the Most Radical Claim of the Easter Season”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     I’m much more comfortable on Maundy Thursday, the beginning of the Triduum, the holiest three days in the Christian calendar.

• Easter Triduum
• Paschal Triduum

Borrowed from Latin trīduum, from Proto-Italic *trizdiwom.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /triˈduum/ [t̪riˈdu.ʊm]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: tri‧du‧um

triduum (plural triduum-triduum)

1. (Catholicism) triduum

• “triduum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Italic *trizdiwom. Equivalent to Latin trēs + diēs (“day”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.du.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪riː.d̪u.um]

trīduum n (genitive trīduī); second declension

1. the space of three days, three days

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → English: triduum
• → French: tridien
• → Italian: triduo
• → Spanish: triduo

• “triduum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triduum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triduum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin trīduum.

• IPA^(key): /triˈdu.um/

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• Rhymes: -uum
• Syllabification: tri‧du‧um
• Homophone: Triduum

triduum n

1. (literary) triduum (period of three days)

• triduum in Polish dictionaries at PWN