trireme
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- noun
- /ˈtraɪˌrim/
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trirreme
- A handful of triremes.
- a Roman trireme
Examples
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The Athenians, the greatest naval power in Greece, fought in ships called triremes.
Fiction book (2002) -
38D: Ancient double-deckers (BIREMES) — the trireme has a much longer Wikipedia entry.
Blog text (26) -
It's to cut the oars for my trireme.
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Those are Roman triremes.
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But I would have to agree with trireme in that I think that enough people in the "Civilized" world have been given the idea of aliens that I don't think it would be much of an issue...
Blog text (6) -
It was an Italian bus with tall windows, baroque chrome, and two tiers of stupefied faces—almost a Mediterranean trireme, Arkady thought.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Athenians, the greatest naval power in Greece, fought in ships called triremes.
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Athens sent 20 triremes (oar-propelled warships) to Ephesus.
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In late summer, Admiral Datis beached the Persian triremes at Marathon, a day's march from Athens.
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
trireme = tri + reme
Although 'tri-' signals 'three', the second element ('reme') is not a familiar English morpheme, so a B1 learner cannot reliably derive 'three-banked warship' from the parts.
Etymology
The word trireme comes from the Latin parts tri- meaning 'three' and remus meaning 'oar'. So a trireme is literally a ship with three rows of oars, which is why these ships were fast and used in battle.