trialogue

English

Alternative forms

• trialog
• trilogue

Etymology

Blend of tri- +‎ dialogue, reinterpreted as di- (“two”) + -alogue, though actually from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”).

Note that official documents of the European Union use the spelling trilogue (perhaps influenced by the French spelling).

Noun

trialogue (plural trialogues)

1. A conversation or talk between three people.
2. (European Union) An informal tripartite meeting attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission.

Related terms

• monologue
• dialogue
• quadralogue
• multilogue

Translations

discourse or colloquy by three people

• Czech: trialog m
• Dutch: trialoog (nl) m
• Finnish: trialogi (fi)
• French: trilogue (fr) m
• German: Trilog (de) m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: trialogo m
• Japanese: 鼎談 (ja) (ていだん, teidan)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: trišalis pokalbis m, trišalis susitikimas m
• Polish: rozmowa trójstronna f
• Portuguese: triálogo m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: trilog c
• Vietnamese: đối thoại ba người

meeting (European Union)

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: trialog m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: trialoog (nl) m, triloog (nl) m
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: trialogi (fi)
• French: trilogue (fr) m
• German: Trilog (de) m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: trilógus, háromoldalú egyeztetés
• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: trialogas m, trišalis susitikimas m
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

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• Polish: rozmowa trójstronna f
• Portuguese: trílogo m
• Romanian: trilog n
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: trilog c, trilogmöte n