different between tricolor vs tricolon

English

Etymology

tri- +? color

Adjective

tricolor (not comparable)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of tricolour

Noun

tricolor (plural tricolors)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of tricolour

French

Adjective

tricolor (feminine singular tricolore, masculine plural tricolors, feminine plural tricolores)

1. Obsolete form of tricolore.

Further reading

• “tricolore” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

tri- +? color

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.ko.lor/, [?t???k????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.ko.lor/, [?t??i?k?l?r]

Adjective

tricolor (genitive tricol?ris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. three-coloured

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri?co?lor

Adjective

tricolor (plural tricolores, comparable)

1. tricolor (having three colors)

Noun

tricolor m (plural tricolores)

1. tricolour (flag)

Romanian

Etymology

From French tricolore, from Latin tricolor.

Adjective

tricolor m or n (feminine singular tricolor?, masculine plural tricolori, feminine and neuter plural tricolore)

1. trichromatic

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?iko?lo?/, [t??i.ko?lo?]
• Hyphenation: tri?co?lor

Adjective

tricolor (plural tricolores)

1. tricolor (having three colors)

Synonyms

• tricrómico

Noun

tricolor m (plural tricolores)

1. tricolour (flag)

Further reading

• “tricolor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ???????? (trik?los, “having three parts”)

Noun

tricolon (plural tricolons or tricola)

1. (rhetoric) A sentence with three clearly defined parts of equal length, usually independent clauses.

   Hypernym: isocolon

   Hyponym: hendiatris

Derived terms

• tricolon crescens
• tricolon diminuens

Translations

Etymology 2

tri- +? colon

Noun

tricolon (plural tricolons)

1. The symbol ?, a colon with three dots instead of two.

Further reading

• isocolon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (trik?lon, “having three parts”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri.ko??l?n/
• Hyphenation: tri?co?lon

Noun

tricolon n (plural tricola)

1. tricolon