Trēn′tal, n.

n. [L. Lat. trentale, from trenta, It. trenta, Fr. trente, Lat. triginta, thirty; O. Fr. trentel, N. Fr. trentain.]

1. An office for the dead in the Roman Catholic service, consisting of thirty masses rehearsed for thirty days successively after the party’s death.
2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.