trimeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin trēs (“three”), likely by analogy with dime.

名詞

trime (plural trimes)

1. A silver coin worth three cents, minted in the US from 1851 to 1873.
   • 2025 February 11, Jiachuan Wu and Ash Reynolds, “As Trump aims to ax the penny, these are the coins that cost more than they're worth”, in NBC News‎:

     If the penny is discontinued, it will join the ranks of other obsolete American coins, including the trime, a 3-cent coin discontinued in 1873, and the gold dollar coin, which was discontinued in 1889; that differed from the dollar coin currently in circulation.

Further reading

• “trime”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.