Meaning

2 senses

  1. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.

  2. In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lower-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the paranete and higher than the paramese.

Examples

6 sentences

  1. I thought it was cloying and trite.

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  2. His humor is too trite to be edgy.

    deSein Humor ist zu banal, um provokant zu sein.

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  3. The "twin tiger cubs get separated ..." story felt a bit trite.

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  4. I have a love-hate relationship with that trite yet colorful book.

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  5. The story about the separation of the two leopard cubs seems pretty trite to me.

    deDie Geschichte über die Trennung der beiden Leopardenjungen erscheint mir ziemlich banal.

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Origin

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tritē, from Ancient Greek τρίτη (trítē, literally “third

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tritē, from Ancient Greek τρίτη (trítē, literally “third [string]”).

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Forms

plural: trites
Singulartrite
Pluraltrites

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
triplettripodtrippytritontriumphB1triumphant
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