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Trinity Sunday

Trinity Sunday comes from English Trinity ‘the Christian Holy Trinity’.

  1. English1500–presentTrinity‘the Christian Holy Trinity’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1852–1854Trinity Sunday

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. English1500–presentTrinity‘the Christian Holy Trinity’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1852–1854Trinity Sunday

Earliest quotation: 1852–1854, Charles Dickens, London: Chapman & Hall: “He [Edward the Black Prince] lived to come home…”

A compound of Trinity ‘the Christian Holy Trinity’ + Sunday

Proto-Indo-European *tréyes ‘three’

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Latin trīnī ‘three each’

Latin trīnitās ‘threeness’

Anglo-Norman trinite

Middle English trinite ‘a triad’

English Trinity

Proto-Germanic *dagaz ‘day’

Proto-West Germanic *dag ‘day’

Proto-West Germanic *Sunnōn dag

Old English sunnandæġ

Middle English Sonday

English Sunday

Every English word from English Trinity

Today it means

name The Sunday after Whitsunday/Pentecost in the Western Christian tradition (or the Sunday of Pentecost in the Eastern Christian tradition), observed as a liturgical feast in honor of the Holy Trinity.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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