trite adj : repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn]

English

Etymology

from the Latin tritus, a form of the verb terere, to rub or wear.

Pronunciation

• trīt, /traɪt/, /traIt/

  Rhymes: -aɪt

Adjective

1. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase.)

Translations

See also

• cliche

Noun

trite

1. a denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.

Trite is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Most of the 18 described species occur in Australia and New Zealand, with several spread over islands of Oceania, one species even reaching Rapa.

Species

• Trite albopilosa (Keyserling, 1883) (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Trite auricoma (Urquhart, 1886) (New Zealand)
• Trite concinna Rainbow, 1920 (Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is.)
• Trite gracilipalpis Berland, 1929 (Loyalty Is.)
• Trite herbigrada (Urquhart, 1889) (New Zealand)
• Trite ignipilosa Berland, 1924 (New Caledonia)
• Trite lineata Simon, 1885 (New Caledonia)
• Trite longipalpis Marples, 1955 (Samoa, Tonga)
• Trite longula (Thorell, 1881) (Queensland)
• Trite mustilina (Powell, 1873) (New Zealand)
• Trite ornata Rainbow, 1915 (South Australia)
• Trite parvula (Bryant, 1935) (New Zealand)
• Trite pennata Simon, 1885 (New Caledonia)
• Trite planiceps Simon, 1899 (New Zealand)
• Trite ponapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 (Caroline Is.)
• Trite rapaensis Berland, 1942 (Rapa)
• Trite urvillei (Dalmas, 1917) (New Zealand)
• Trite vulpecula (Thorell, 1881) (Queensland)

External links

• Photograph of T. planiceps

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