Trent

Meaning

1. A village and civil parish (served by Queen Thorne Parish Council) in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST5918).
2. Trento, A city in Italy.
3. A town in Moody County, South Dakota.
4. A census-designated place in Lane County, Oregon.
5. A river in central England, flowing 298 km (185 mi.) from Staffordshire, through Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, to join the Ouse at Trent Falls and form the Humber estuary.
6. A municipality on the island of Rügen in Vorpommern-Rügen district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
7. A place in the United States:
8. A river in Ontario, Canada, which flows into Lake Ontario and forms part of the Trent-Severn Waterway.
9. A placename
10. An unincorporated community in Wolfe County, Kentucky.

Etymology / origin

Inherited from Middle English Trent, from Old English Trēonte; Koch (2006) derives the river name from Proto-Celtic *tri-sent(o)-on-ā-, from the elements *trei (“through”) + *sentus (“path”). Traditionally said to be from Proto-Brythonic elements equivalent to tros (“over”) + hynt (“way”), often taken to mean "the trespasser" The surname in some cases is a shortening of "Tranent", or "Tranant" in Scottish Gaelic, a geographical location in East Lothian. "Tranant" itself is possibly of Brythonic (Celtic) origin.

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