triacontad
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τριᾱκοντάς (triākontás), from τριάκοντα (triákonta, “thirty”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /traɪəˈkɑntæd/, /triːəˈkɑntæd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /trʌɪəˈkɒntad/
Noun
triacontad (plural triacontads)
- Synonym of thirty, the number between 29 and 31.
- A set of 30 items.
- 1621, Richard Montagu, Diatribae upon the First Part of the Late History of Tithes, page 258:
- Against these it is, and against their other fellow Gnosticks, that Chrysostome inueigheth, Hom. 24 in Gen. as Pererius hath well obserued: who transformed God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost into Numbers; that brought in their Ogdoades, Duodecads, Triacontads, Pleromaos, Bythos, Siges, and all the Aeones, blasphemous speculations, into Censum Deitatis.
Synonyms
- (set of 30 things): trental
References
- “triacontad, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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