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tres

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tres"

English edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish tres (“three”).

Noun edit

tres (plural treses)

  1. (music) A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.

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Translations edit

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Anagrams edit

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Albanian *trōtja, etymologically identical with Proto-Slavic *trǫtja (“to spend, waste”).[1]

Noun edit

tres (aorist treta, participle tretur)

  1. to dissolve, digest, melt down, lose weight
  2. to throw away

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “tres”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 464

Aragonese edit

Aragonese cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology edit

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Asturian edit

Asturian cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres
    Ordinal : terceru

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral edit

tres (indeclinable)

  1. three
Usage notes edit

When there is possibility of confusion with the preposition tres, the numeral tres is accented as trés

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin trāns (“beyond, on the other side”).

Preposition edit

tres

  1. behind, beyond
  2. after

Catalan edit

Catalan numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: tres
    Ordinal: tercer
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3r
    Multiplier: triple
    Fractional: terç
Catalan Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognates include Occitan and Spanish tres, Italian tre, French trois.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tres m or f

  1. (cardinal number) three

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

tres m (plural tresos)

  1. three
  2. (castells) a castell with three castellers on each level of the tronc

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Danish edit

Etymology edit

Clipping of tresindstyve.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtˢʁ̥æs]
  • Rhymes: -as

Numeral edit

tres

  1. sixty
    Synonyms: tresindstyve, seksti

Related terms edit

References edit

Extremaduran edit

Etymology edit

Akin to Spanish, from Latin.

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Fala edit

Fala numbers (edit)
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: tres
    Ordinal: terceiru

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Further reading edit

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician edit

Galician numbers (edit)
30
[a], [b], [c] ←  2 3 4  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal (standard): tres
    Cardinal (reintegrationist): três
    Ordinal: terceiro
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3º
    Multiplier: triplo
    Fractional (standard): terzo
    Fractional (reintegrationist): terço
Galician Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tres (indeclinable)

  1. three

Ilocano edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish tres

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: tres
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/, [ˈtɾes]

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three
    Synonym: tallo

Interlingua edit

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Kabuverdianu edit

Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology edit

From Portuguese três.

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three (3)

Kristang edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Latin edit

Latin numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 III
3 		4  → 
    Cardinal: trēs
    Ordinal: tertius
    Adverbial: ter
    Multiplier: triplex, triplus
    Distributive: ternī, trīnī
    Collective: terniō
    Fractional: triēns

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognates include Sanskrit त्रि (trí), Ancient Greek τρεῖς (treîs) and Old English þrēo (English three).

Pronunciation edit

 
Cerberus canis trium capitum est (Cerberus is a three-headed dog).

Numeral edit

trēs (neuter tria); third-declension two-termination numeral, plural only

  1. three; 3
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.450–451:
      tria Cerberus extulit ora et tres latratus semel edidit
      Cerberus put forth three mouths and issued three barks at once
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Samuelis II.14.27:
      nati sunt autem Absalom filii tres et filia una nomine Thamar eleganti forma
      And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance

Usage notes edit

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

Declension edit

Third-declension two-termination adjective, plural only.

Number Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative trēs tria
Genitive trium
Dative tribus
Accusative trēs
trīs 		tria
Ablative tribus
Vocative trēs tria

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Descendants edit

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: trei
    • Istro-Romanian: trei
    • Megleno-Romanian: trei
    • Romanian: trei
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:

See also edit

References edit

  • “tres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo

Middle English edit

Noun edit

tres

  1. plural of tre

Middle French edit

Adverb edit

tres

  1. manuscript form of trés

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Verb edit

tres

  1. passive of tre (Etymologies 3 & 4)

Occitan edit

Occitan cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres
    Ordinal : tresen

Etymology edit

From Old Occitan tres, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Related terms edit

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three (3)

Descendants edit

Old Occitan edit

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three (3)

Descendants edit

Old Spanish edit

Old Spanish cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres
    Ordinal : tercero

Alternative forms edit

  • III (representation in Roman numerals)

Etymology edit

From Latin trēs.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

Papiamentu edit

Papiamentu cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology edit

From Portuguese três and Spanish tres and Kabuverdianu tres.

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three (3)

Portuguese edit

Adjective edit

tres

  1. Obsolete spelling of três

Romansch edit

Alternative forms edit

  • trais (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
  • treis (Sursilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology edit

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Number edit

tres

  1. (Sutsilvan) three

Sardinian edit

Sardinian cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology edit

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtɾɛː.zɛ̆]

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Spanish edit

Spanish numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: tres
    Ordinal: tercero
    Apocopated ordinal: tercer
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3.º
    Multiplier: triple
    Fractional: tercio
Spanish Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -es
  • Syllabification: tres

Numeral edit

tres

  1. three

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Tagalog edit

Tagalog numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: tatlo
    Spanish cardinal: tres
    Ordinal: ikatlo, ikatatlo, pangatlo
    Spanish ordinal: tersero, tersera
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-3, pang-3
    Adverbial: makatlo, makaitlo, makatatlo
    Multiplier: triple, tatlong ibayo
    Distributive: tigtatlo, tatluhan, tatlo-tatlo
    Restrictive: tatatlo
    Fractional: katlo, sangkatlo, saikatlo
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/, [ˈtɾɛs]

Numeral edit

tres (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜐ᜔)

  1. three
    Synonym: tatlo
  2. (basketball) three-point shot

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Further reading edit

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