How do you pronounce "Tridentine"

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I’ve never actually thought about if I am pronouncing it correctly.
 
There are several accepted pronunciations, all of which are correct.
  1. Try-den-tin (“tin” as in “pin” or “fin”)
  2. Try-den-tine (“tine” as in “fine” or “pine”)
  3. Try-den-teen
Numbers 2 and 3 seem to be the most common forms of pronunciation, though I’ve also heard 1.

Personally, I say Try-den-teen. I think that’s because that’s how I first heard it. Highly technical, eh? 😃
 
My choice would be between “trydentine” and “trydentin” and without fall-rise emphasis.
 
what about trid-en-teen? (where “trid” rhymes with “grid”)? That’s how I usually hear it pronounced. 😃
 
TraderTif said:
what about trid-en-teen? (where “trid” rhymes with “grid”)? That’s how I usually hear it pronounced. 😃
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That’s how I’ve said it, but perhaps that’s wrong.

Kinda like the rosary. I had thought decade was pronounced like that of ten years. But apparently it’s pronounced deck-it?
 
I just looked it up in a very good dictionary. It gives the main pronunciation as try-DENT-in.
 
Ahh, here we go! I just looked on my favorite dictionary site, it has a little sound icon you can click on to hear the pronunciation.

thefreedictionary.com/tridentine

If you look at the actual pronunciation guide, you can either pronounce it “tyne” or “teen”
 
strngrnrth said:
I just looked it up in a very good dictionary. It gives the main pronunciation as try-DENT-in.
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I love old dictionaries too, hehe. The “t” has to be strong, so I guess that’s more or less like what I said since separating “dent” from “in” would be a bit extreme.

As for “trid” - Latin. “Trydentine,” while probably used by some speakers, would be artificial since there’s no possibility that Latin shared the exclusively English reading of “i” as /ai/. So, Trydentine mass, but missa tridentina.
 
In my experience Tridentine is overwhelmingly pronounced with “Trid” rhyming with “grid”, “tine” sounds like “teen”, and the emphasis is on the first syllable.

James
 
I always thought it was:
Tri - as in Triangle
Dent - as in car dent
Tine - as in fork tine

I wonder what it would be like for someone with a Southern accent:
Trah-Den-Taan, yall

Or New York accent:
Tri-den-ten (?? – someone help me on this one)

Or British:
Tri-den-tine-er

Or Chinese:
TrI - dEn - TING

Anyone feel free to correct me or add any other accents I might have left off.
 
James0235 said:
In my experience Tridentine is overwhelmingly pronounced with “Trid” rhyming with “grid”, “tine” sounds like “teen”, and the emphasis is on the first syllable.

James
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You’re saying it almost rhymes with Byzantine, right?
 
in the “tine”, I think the i can be pronounced with a long i (ay) or short i( i or ee).
 
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