tres

See also: trés, très, três, treš, tres-, trěś, třes, třeš, and -τρες

English

Etymology

From Spanish tres (three).

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

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

Noun

tres (first-person singular past tense treta, participle tretur)

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

Derived terms

  • tretje

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 464

Aragonese

Aragonese cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology

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

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Asturian

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾes/, [t̪ɾes]

Etymology 1

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

Numeral

tres (indeclinable)

  1. three
Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

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

Preposition

tres

  1. behind, beyond
  2. after

Catalan

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈtɾəs/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈtɾɛs/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Numeral

tres m or f

  1. (cardinal number) three

Derived terms

  • tenir en cap a tres quarts de quinze (be absent-minded or crazy)
  • en un tres i no res
  • buscar tres peus al gat (search for all the inconveniences)

Noun

tres m (plural tresos)

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

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Clipping of tresindstyve.

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

tres

  1. sixty
    Synonyms: tresindstyve, seksti

References

Extremaduran

Etymology

Akin to Spanish, from Latin.

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Fala

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

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Further reading

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary], CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 273

Galician

Galician cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres
    Ordinal : terceiro
Galician Wikipedia article on tres

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾɪs/
  • (file)

Numeral

tres (indeclinable)

  1. three

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

tres

  1. three
    Synonym: tallo

Interlingua

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Kabuverdianu

Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology

From Portuguese três.

Numeral

tres

  1. three (3)

Kristang

Etymology

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

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Latin

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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

Numeral

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

  1. three; 3
    • 8 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

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

Declension

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • 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

  • Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo

Middle English

Noun

tres

  1. plural of tre

Middle French

Adverb

tres

  1. manuscript form of trés

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tres

  1. passive of tre (Etymologies 3 & 4)

Occitan

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: tres

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾes̺/

Numeral

tres

  1. three (3)

Descendants

Old Occitan

Numeral

tres

  1. three (3)

Descendants

Papiamentu

Papiamentu cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology

From Portuguese três and Spanish tres and Kabuverdianu tres.

Numeral

tres

  1. three (3)

Portuguese

Adjective

tres

  1. Obsolete spelling of três

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Number

tres

  1. (Sutsilvan) three

Sardinian

Sardinian cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtɾɛː.zɛ̆]

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Spanish

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

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Derived terms

Further reading

Tagalog

Tagalog cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres
    Ordinal : ikatres

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/, [ˈtɾɛs]

Numeral

tres (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜐ᜔)

  1. three
    Synonym: tatlo

Derived terms

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