trio

1715-25; borrowing from Italian trio.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹi.əʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹioʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːəʊ

trio (plural trios)

1. A group of three people or things.
   • 2015, Kate Hardy, Bachelor at Her Bidding:

     I'm cooking crab cakes with arugula and mayonnaise, griddled lamb with rosemary potatoes and buttered spinach, then a trio of desserts.

   • 2017 June 11, Ben Fisher, “England seal Under-20 World Cup glory as Dominic Calvert-Lewin strikes”, in the Guardian‎:

     These are exciting times for England and particularly for this group. Six of this side won the Under-17s European Championship in 2014 and the attacking trio from Everton and Liverpool – Ademola Lookman, Dominic Solanke and Calvert-Lewin – had an excellent tournament.

2. A group of three musicians.
3. (music) A piece of music written for three musicians.
   • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 281:

     I love his music, but it is a bit disconcerting to realize that you could die in extreme old age and still only be familiar with a mere handful of the baryton trios.

4. (music) A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
5. Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.

• (group of three): threesome, triad, trine, trinity, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio

• solo - 1
• duo - 2
• triplet - 3
• quartet - 4
• quintet - 5
• sextet - 6
• Thesaurus:number

• Tori, Troi, riot, roti, tiro, tori

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi.o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi.u/

From Italian trio.

trio m (plural trios)

1. (music) trio (a piece of music written for three musicians)
2. (music) trio (a group of three musicians)
3. threesome (an instance of sexual activity involving three people)

trio

1. first-person singular present indicative form of triar

• “trio” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trio”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “trio” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trio” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Italian trio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.oː/

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• Hyphenation: trio

trio n (plural trio's, diminutive triootje n)

1. trio, threesome, triad (group of three people or things)

   Synonym: drietal

   De Duitse band Trio was een trio.

   The German band Trio was a triumvirate.

2. menage a trois, threesome (sex act, three people having sex together)

   De Duitse band Trio was geen trio.

   The German band Trio was not a menage a trois.

• cabarettrio

tri (“three”) +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrio]
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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: tri‧o

trio (accusative singular trion, plural trioj, accusative plural triojn)

1. threesome, trio

   Synonym: triopo

2. the digit or figure three

From Italian trio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrio/, [ˈt̪rio̞]
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification^(key): tri‧o

trio

1. trio

• triojäätelö

• irto-, orit, roti, tori

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.jo/

Borrowing from Italian trio

trio m (plural trios)

1. trio

trio m (uncountable)

1. Tiriyó (language)

• “trio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: trì‧o

trio m (plural trii)

1. trio, threesome
2. (music) trio
3. (baby carriage system) travel system

• terzetto
• tripletta
• triade

• tre

baby carriage

• carrozzina
• passeggino

• Tiro, irto, orti, otri, rito, roti, tiro, tirò, tori

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.oː/, [ˈt̪rioː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.o/, [ˈt̪riːo]

triō m (genitive triōnis); third declension

1. a plow ox
2. (chiefly in plural) the constellation of the Wagon (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor)

Third-declension noun.

• septentriō

Borrowed from English trio, French trio.

trio m (plural trios)

1. (Jersey) trio

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

trio

1. trio

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Borrowed from Italian trio.

trio m (definite singular trioen, indefinite plural trioer, definite plural trioene)

1. trio (group of three musicians; piece of music for three instruments; group of three people)

• “trio” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian trio.

trio m (definite singular trioen, indefinite plural trioar, definite plural trioane)

1. trio (group of three musicians; piece of music for three instruments)

• “trio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian trio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.jɔ/, /ˈtrɨ.jɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ijɔ, -ɨjɔ
• Syllabification: tri‧o

trio n

1. (music) trio (group of three musicians)

   Synonym: tercet

2. (music) trio (piece of music written for three musicians)

   Synonym: tercet

3. trio (group of three people or things)

   Synonym: tercet

• trio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trio in Polish dictionaries at PWN

trio m (plural trios)

1. trio (group of three people or things)

   Synonyms: trinca, terceto, tríade

trio

1. first-person singular present indicative of triar

From Italian trio or French trio.

trio n (plural triouri)

1. trio

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

trio

1. trio

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “трио”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Borrowed from English try.

trio (first-person singular present triaf)

1. to try

   Synonym: ceisio