triaconter
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek τριακοντήρης (triakontḗrēs).
Noun edit
triaconter (plural triaconters)
- (historical, Ancient Greece) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or thirty ranks of rowers.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “triaconter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)