Trent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɛnt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology 1
- From Welsh tros (“over”) + hynt (“way”), often taken to mean "the trespasser"
- Another possibility: a shortening of "Tranent", or "Tranant" in Scottish Gaelic, a geographical location in East Lothian. "Tranant" itself is possibly of Brythonic (Celtic) origin.
Proper noun
Trent (countable and uncountable, plural Trents)
- A placename
- A river in central England, flowing 298 km (185 mi.) from Staffordshire, through Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to join the Ouse and form the Humber estuary.
- A river in Ontario, Canada, which flows into Lake Ontario and forms part of the Trent-Severn Waterway.
- A census-designated place in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
- A topographic surname An English and Scottish surname for someone who lived near any of the rivers of that name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as op de Trent in 1727. Derived from Middle Dutch trent (“round object, disc, circle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trɛnt/
- Hyphenation: Trent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
References
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
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