Where does “trinchet” come from?

trinchet (Romanian) comes from Italian trinchetto, from Latin triquetrus, from Latin tri-, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

trinchet (Romanian): foremast

Definitions

  1. foremast

Ancestry of “trinchet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantrinchettoforemast
2Latintriquetrustriangular, having three corners
3Latintri-three, tri-
4Latintrēsthree; 3
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →