Category:Trental

Tren"tal, n. Etym: [ll. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to Tres three: cf. Of. trentel. See three, and cf. Trigintal.]

1. (r. C. Ch.)

Defn: an office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after Death or burial. "their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.

2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.