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| discharge = 84 | discharge_note = | discharge_max = 1018 | discharge_max_note = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hi Flows UK )〕 | discharge_location = Colwick | discharge_min = 15 | discharge_min_note = 〔 | discharge1_location = North Muskham | discharge1_average = 88 | discharge1_average_note = | free = | free_type = | map = River Trent.png | map_size = | map_caption = The drainage basin of the River Trent. | map_background = | map_locator = | website = | commons = River Trent | footnotes = Progression : River Trent — Humber — North Sea }} The River Trent is the third-longest river in the United Kingdom. Its source is in Staffordshire on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains most of the northern Midlands around and east of Birmingham. The river is known for dramatic flooding after storms and spring snowmelt, which in past times often caused the river to change course. The river passes through Stoke-on-Trent, Burton-upon-Trent and Nottingham before joining the River Ouse at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea between Hull in Yorkshire and Immingham in Lincolnshire. The wide estuary is a traditional boundary between northern England and the Midlands. ==Name== The name "Trent" is from a Celtic word possibly meaning "strongly flooding". More specifically, the name may be a contraction of two Celtic words, ''tros'' ("over") and ''hynt'' ("way").〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Wales Trinity Saint David )〕 This may indeed indicate a river that is prone to flooding. However, a more likely explanation may be that it was considered to be a river that could be crossed principally by means of fords, i.e. the river flowed over major road routes. This may explain the presence of the Celtic element ''rid'' (c.f. Welsh ''rhyd'', "ford") in various place names along the Trent, such as Hill Ridware, as well as the Old English‐derived ''ford.'' Another translation is given as "the trespasser", referring to the waters flooding over the land. According to Koch at the University of Wales, the name ''Trent'' derives from the Romano-British ''Trisantona'', a Romano-British reflex of the combined Proto-Celtic elements *''tri-sent(o)-on-ā-'' (through-path-augmentative-feminine-) ‘great thoroughfare’.〔 A traditional but almost certainly wrong opinion is that of Izaak Walton, who states in The Compleat Angler (1653) that the Trent is "... so called from thirty kind of fishes that are found in it, or for that it receiveth thirty lesser rivers."〔https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/683/pg683.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「River Trent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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