Dictionary

triacontad en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /traɪəˈkɑntæd/ (General-American)
• /triːəˈkɑntæd/ (General-American)
• /trʌɪəˈkɒntad/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τριᾱκοντάς (triākontás), from τριάκοντα (triákonta, “thirty”). By surface analysis, triacont- + -ad.

Meanings

1. Synonym of thirty, the number between 29 and 31.
2. A set of 30 items.
   • 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. 1621, Richard Montagu, Diatribae upon the First Part of the Late History of Tithes, page 258:

Forms

Synonyms

trental (set of 30 things) · thirty