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tre

See also: Tre, tre-, tré, trè, trẻ, trę, trẹ, tré-, tře, trê, trễ, and trể

English edit

Noun edit

tre (plural tres)

  1. Obsolete form of tree.
    • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and J. Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:
      They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wt nales and hammers, that it moue not.

See also edit

Albanian edit

Albanian cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tre
    Ordinal : tretë

Etymology edit

From Proto-Albanian *treje, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate to Latin trēs (“three”) and Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three

Related terms edit

Breton edit

Adverb edit

tre

  1. very
    Mat-tre!
    Very good!

Cornish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Brythonic *treβ, from Proto-Celtic *trebā, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Cognate with Welsh tref

Noun edit

tre f (plural trevow)

  1. home, homestead
  2. town, village

Adverb edit

tre

  1. at home
  2. back, homewards

Mutation edit

  Mutation of tre  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
tre dre thre unchanged unchanged unchanged

Danish edit

Danish cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tre
    Ordinal : tredje

Etymology edit

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ f pl (þrijoʀ), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).

The modern Danish form is a merger of the original East Old Norse accusative masculine þrēa (West þrjá) and the nominative/accusative feminine þrēaʀ (West þrjár).

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three

Further reading edit

Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French très.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [tre]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tre

Adverb edit

tre

  1. very

Descendants edit

  • → Ido: tre

Ido edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Esperanto tre, French très.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

tre

  1. very

Italian edit

Italian numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: tre
    Ordinal: terzo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3º
    Adverbial: tre volte
    Multiplier: triplo, triplice
    Collective: tutti e tre
    Fractional: terzo
Italian Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtre/*
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: tré

Numeral edit

tre (invariable)

  1. three

Noun edit

tre m (invariable)

  1. three

Related terms edit

See also edit

Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
             
asso due tre quattro cinque sei sette
             
otto nove dieci fante donna,
regina 		re jolly, joker,
matta

Kalasha edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit त्रयः (trayaḥ), from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three; 3

Lombard edit

Etymology edit

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three
    • 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:
      In questo nostro libro da tre guis è scrigiura:
      In this book we deal with three types of writing:

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old English trēow, from Proto-West Germanic *treu, in turn from Proto-Germanic *trewą. Ultimately descended from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tre (plural tres or treen)

  1. a tree or a plant that resembles one
  2. wood; timber

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

Middle Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish tre, from Proto-Celtic *trē (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”); compare Sanskrit तिरस् (tiras), Latin trāns and Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh).

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

tre (with the accusative; triggers lenition)

  1. through
    • c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 11, page 1: “Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. ― [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons.”

Inflection edit

Forms combined with a definite article:

  • tríasin (“through the m sg or f sg”)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Neapolitan edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 285: “tre; quattro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tre
    Ordinal : tredje

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

 
Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

From Old Norse tré (“tree; beam”), from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), possibly from *drew- (“hard, firm, strong, solid”).

The plurals trær and trærne are derived from Danish træ.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre or trær, definite plural trea or trærne)

  1. tree
  2. wood
    Dette bordet er lagd av tre.
    This table is made of wood.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Middle Low German treden.

Verb edit

tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past trådte, past participle trådt, present participle tredende)

  1. to step (in, out etc.), to tread
    (military) Tre av! - Dismissed!
    (legislation etc.) tre i kraft - come into effect, come into force
Derived terms edit

Etymology 4 edit

From tråd.

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past tredde, past participle tredd)

  1. to thread
    tre en nål ― thread a needle

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tre
    Ordinal : tredje

Alternative forms edit

  • tri (three, dialectal, also Høgnorsk)
  • trí, trjå, trjú (three, dialectal, gender-depending)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /treː/, [tʁeː], [treː], [tɾeː]
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse þrír probably through Danish tre, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir, English three.

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

From Old Norse tré, from Proto-Germanic *trewą, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru. Akin to English tree.

Noun edit

tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre, definite plural trea)

  1. tree
    Trea i skogen var gamle.
    The trees in the forest were old.
  2. wood
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From earlier treda, from Middle Low German treden, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną. Doublet of trø and trå. Akin to English tread.

Verb edit

tre (present tense trer, past tense tredde, supine tredd or trett, past participle tredd, present participle treande, imperative tre)

  1. (intransitive) to tread, step
    • 1878 June 19, “Peter Schlemihl”, in Fedraheimen, page 135:
      han skynade mi Meining og trod tvo Stig attende.
      He got the memo, and took two steps back.
Conjugation edit

This verb is inflected as a short-formed weak e-verb, according to current standardization. The short form was introduced in 1959, and the weak past tense tredde was introduced in 1991, two developments made final by the reform of 2012. There is an outline of the development within the table below. The history is also intertwined with its semantically overlapping doublet, trå, as their inflections have been suppletive of each other.

Historical inflection of tre, treda and trede
infinitive present tense past tense supine
Aasen sg. treda tred trod tradet
pl. treda trodo
1901 treda tred trod trade
1917 treda [trede] tred [treder] trod trode
1938 treda [trede] tred [treder] trod tradi
1959 tre, treda, trede trer, tred [treder] tro, trod trådd
1985 tre, treda, trede trer, tred [treder] tro, trod, trådde trede, tredi, trådd, trådt
1991 tre, treda, trede trer, tred, treder tredde, tro, trod tredd, tredt, trede, tredi
2012 (current) tre trer tredde tredd, trett
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit

Etymology 4 edit

Verb edit

tre (present tense trer, past tense tredde, past participle tredd, imperative tre)

  1. Misspelling of træ.

References edit

Anagrams edit

Old Irish edit

Preposition edit

tre

  1. Alternative form of tri

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tre thre tre
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Piedmontese edit

Piedmontese cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tre

Etymology edit

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs. Cognates include Italian tre and French trois.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three

Romanian edit

Verb edit

tre

  1. (nonstandard) alternative typography of tre’

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish tri (“through”), from Proto-Celtic *trē (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”).

Preposition edit

tre (+ dative, triggers lenition)

  1. through, by means of

Swedish edit

Swedish numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: tre
    Ordinal: tredje
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3:e
    Multiplier: trefaldig
    Collective: trio
    Fractional: tredjedel

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish þrir, þrī, from Runic Swedish þrīR, from Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Norwegian and Danish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three

Synonyms edit

Coordinate terms edit

Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
—0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
0— noll en/ett två tre fyra fem sex sju åtta nio
1— tio elva tolv tretton fjorton femton sexton sjutton arton/aderton nitton
2— tjugo tjugoen/-ett tjugotvå tjugotre tjugofyra tjugofem tjugosex tjugosju tjugoåtta tjugonio
3— trettio trettioen/-ett trettiotvå trettiotre trettiofyra trettiofem trettiosex trettiosju trettioåtta trettionio
4— fyrtio fyrtioen/-ett fyrtiotvå fyrtiotre fyrtiofyra fyrtiofem fyrtiosex fyrtiosju fyrtioåtta fyrtionio
5— femtio femtioen/-ett femtiotvå femtiotre femtiofyra femtiofem femtiosex femtiosju femtioåtta femtionio
6— sextio sextioen/-ett sextiotvå sextiotre sextiofyra sextiofem sextiosex sextiosju sextioåtta sextionio
7— sjuttio sjuttioen/-ett sjuttiotvå sjuttiotre sjuttiofyra sjuttiofem sjuttiosex sjuttiosju sjuttioåtta sjuttionio
8— åttio åttioen/-ett åttiotvå åttiotre åttiofyra åttiofem åttiosex åttiosju åttioåtta åttionio
9— nittio nittioen/-ett nittiotvå nittiotre nittiofyra nittiofem nittiosex nittiosju nittioåtta nittionio
Cardinal numbers from 100 onward

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Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

See also edit

References edit

Anagrams edit

Tocharian A edit

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Next: śtwar

Etymology edit

From Proto-Tocharian *treyä, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate with Tocharian B trey, trai.

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three

References edit

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “trai”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 339-340

Umbrian edit

Romanization edit

tre

  1. Romanization of 𐌕𐌓𐌄

Venetian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.

Numeral edit

tre

  1. three

Synonyms edit

Vietnamese edit

Alternative forms edit

  • (certain coastal Northern dialects, endangered) te (dialects with /ʈ/-/t/ merger)

Etymology edit

From Middle Vietnamese tle, from Proto-Vietic *k-lɛː. Compare also Proto-Katuic *ʔalɛɛ (“type of bamboo”) (whence Pacoh ale (“small bamboo used for spears”)).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(classifier cây) tre • (𥯌, 椥)

  1. bamboo
Derived terms

See also edit

Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tre f (plural trefi)

  1. Alternative form of tref

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tre dre nhre thre
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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