Standard Lemma guide

trapeze

name · noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /tɹəˈpiːz/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːz
  • CMU ARPABET: T R AH0 P IY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A trapezium.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

noun

Meaning 4

The trapezium bone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A certain yo-yo trick.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

verb

Meaning 6

To swing on or as on a trapeze.

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7

noun

Meaning 7

a swing used by circus acrobats

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: swing

History

Etymology

From trapèze - French for trapezium, named so by Edgar Aubert de la Rüe due to the mountain's shape.

From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أُرْجُوحَة (ʔurjūḥa) — swinging horizontal bar
  • Armenian: ճոճաձող (čočajoġ) — swinging horizontal bar
  • Bulgarian: трапе́ц (trapéc) — swinging horizontal bar
  • Catalan: trapezi — swinging horizontal bar
  • Czech: visutá hrazda — swinging horizontal bar
  • Esperanto: trapezo — swinging horizontal bar
  • Finnish: trapetsi — swinging horizontal bar
  • French: trapèze — swinging horizontal bar
  • Galician: trapecio — swinging horizontal bar
  • German: Trapez — swinging horizontal bar
  • Hungarian: trapéz — swinging horizontal bar
  • Ido: trapezo — swinging horizontal bar
  • Italian: trapezio — swinging horizontal bar
  • Japanese: 空中ブランコ (kūchūburanko) — swinging horizontal bar
  • Macedonian: трапез (trapez) — swinging horizontal bar
  • Polish: trapez — swinging horizontal bar
  • Portuguese: trapézio — swinging horizontal bar
  • Romanian: trapez — swinging horizontal bar
  • Russian: трапе́ция (trapécija) — swinging horizontal bar
  • Spanish: trapecio — swinging horizontal bar
  • Swedish: trapets — swinging horizontal bar
  • Turkish: trapez — swinging horizontal bar