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発音

• enPR: trīt
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɹaɪt/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA: /tɹaɪt/, (Canadian raising) [tɹʌɪt]
  • (Australia) IPA: /tɹɑet/
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /tɹaɪt/, [tɹɑe̯t]
• Homophone: tryte
• 韻: -aɪt

語源 1

From Latin trītus (“worn out”), perfect passive participle of terō (“to wear away, wear out”).

形容詞

trite (comparative triter, superlative tritest)

1. (often in reference to a word or phrase) used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.

   Synonyms: banal, clichéd, played out; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed

   • 1897, W. B. Kimberly, History of West Australia : A Narrative of Her Past together with Biographies of Her Leading Men:

     It is a trite saying in a young country that anyone starting out in life with the determination to become wealthy will have his wish gratified.

   • 1994, Anthony Bergin, “The High Seas Regime – Pacific Trends and Developments”, in James Crawford, Donald R. Rothwell, editors, The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region: Developments and Prospects, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 183:

     It is trite history – and trite law – to say that the law of the sea since that time [World War II] reflects a history of coastal State expansion.

   • 1999 November 2, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of The Times: A Single Girl Takes On the California Frontier”, in The New York Times (E section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:

     Her people are equally simplistic and trite: evil outlaws, greedy opportunists and whores with hearts of gold.

   • 2007, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 267‎:

     McPedro the cactus: How to woo a woman! On yehr fahrst date, don’t bring her cut flowers! That’s inhumane! And trite!

   • 2025 March 4, Marina Hyde, “It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way”, in The Guardian‎:

     This show is sensationally absurd and trite, and if you watch it, you know it.

2. (law) So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.
   • 2017, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Taucar v Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, 2017 ONSC 2604:

     It is trite to say that the mere fact that a decision does not favour the applicant or that the applicant disagrees with the decision does not establish that the decision is tainted with bias.

派生語

参考

• cliché

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

trite (plural trites)

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

語源 3

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

名詞

trite (plural trites)

1. (music, music theory) 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.

使用する際の注意点

• The strings/pitches from lowest-pitched (nearest the player) to highest-pitched (farthest from the player) were the hypate, parhypate, lichanos, mese, paramese, trite, paranete and nete, grouped into two tetrachords, the nearer one stretching from hypate to mese and the farther one stretching from paramese to nete. The outer two notes in a tetrachord were fixed in pitch but the inner two notes could be tuned differently.

アナグラム

• tetri, titer, titre

参照

• “trite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trite”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.