trilogy

English

Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

Learned borrowing from Latin trilogia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τριλογία (trilogía, “trilogy”). Morphologically, from tri- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪləd͡ʒi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

trilogy (plural trilogies)

1. A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

Related terms

• dilogy (2)
• tetralogy (4)
• pentalogy (5)
• hexalogy (6)
• heptalogy (7)
• octalogy (8)
• ennealogy (9)
• decalogy (10)
• polylogy (2+)

Translations

collection of three works

• Arabic: ثُلَاثِيَّة f (ṯulāṯiyya)
• Armenian: եռապատում (hy) (eṙapatum)
• Bulgarian: трило́гия f (trilógija)
• Catalan: trilogia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三部曲 (zh) (sānbùqǔ)

• Danish: trilogi (da) c
• Dutch: trilogie (nl) f, drieluik (nl) n
• Esperanto: trilogio
• Faroese: tríverk n, tríleikur m, trilogi f
• Finnish: trilogia (fi)
• French: trilogie (fr) f
• Galician: triloxía f
• German: Trilogie (de) f
• Greek: τριλογία (el) f (trilogía)
• Hebrew: טרילוגיה (he)
• Hungarian: trilógia (hu)
• Icelandic: þríleikur m, trílógía f
• Italian: trilogia (it) f
• Japanese: 三部作 (さんぶさく, sanbusaku)
• Korean: 삼부작(三部作) (ko) (sambujak)
• Latin: trilogia
• Malay: trilogi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trilogi (no) m

  Nynorsk: trilogi m

• Occitan: trilogia (oc) f
• Polish: trylogia (pl) f, trójksiąg m
• Portuguese: trilogia (pt) f
• Russian: трило́гия (ru) f (trilógija)
• Spanish: trilogía (es) f
• Swedish: trilogi (sv) c
• Turkish: üçleme (tr), triloji (tr)
• Yiddish: טרילאָגיע f (trilogye)