English

trinitrate

From tri- + nitrate.

A compound of tri- + nitrate

Proto-Indo-European *tri- ‘three, threefold’

Proto-Italic *tri- ‘three, tri-’

English tri-

French nitrate

English nitrate

Today it means

noun Any compound containing three nitrate groups

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