trireme
/ˈtɹaɪ.ɹiːm/noun
trireme is a noun meaning “A galley with three banks of oars, one above the other, used mainly as a warship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-R-E-M-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of trireme is triremes.
What does trireme mean?
noun
- 1
A galley with three banks of oars, one above the other, used mainly as a warship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce trireme?
- /ˈtɹaɪ.ɹiːm/
Trireme has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-trireme.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of trireme
- triremes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is trireme?
Trireme appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).
Trireme in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense galley with three banks of oars:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does trireme come from?
From Latin trirēmis, from tri- + rēmus (“oar”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).