triquetrum
noun
triquetrum is a noun meaning “The triquetral bone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-Q-U-E-T-R-U-M, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of triquetrum is triquetra.
What does triquetrum mean?
noun
- 1
The triquetral bone
- 2
An astronomical instrument.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce triquetrum?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-triquetrum.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of triquetrum
- triquetra plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is triquetrum?
Triquetrum appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does triquetrum come from?
From Latin triquetrus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).