tres
English
Noun
tres (plural treses)
- (music) A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of chordophones
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *trōtja, etymologically identical with Proto-Slavic *trǫtja (“to spend, waste”).[1]
Verb
tres (aorist treta, participle tretur)
Derived terms
- tretje
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “tres”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 464
Aragonese
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Cardinal : tres | ||
Etymology
From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Asturian
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Cardinal : tres Ordinal : terceru | ||
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾes/, [t̪ɾes]
Etymology 1
From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Usage notes
When there is possibility of confusion with the preposition tres, the numeral tres is accented as trés
Catalan
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Cardinal: tres Ordinal: tercer Ordinal abbreviation: 3r Multiplier: triple Fractional: terç | ||
Catalan Wikipedia article on 3 |
Etymology
Inherited from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognates include Occitan and Spanish tres, Italian tre, French trois.
Pronunciation
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)
- three
- (castells) a castell with three castellers on each level of the tronc
Further reading
- “tres” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Etymology
Clipping of tresindstyve.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtˢʁ̥æs]
- Rhymes: -as
Related terms
- tressende (“sixtieth”)
- tresser (“sixties”)
- tresindstyvende (“sixtieth”)
References
Fala
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Cardinal: tres Ordinal: terceiru |
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/
Galician
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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
From Old Galician-Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes̺]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -es
Ilocano
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/, [ˈtɾes]
- Hyphenation: tres
Interlingua
Kabuverdianu
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Cardinal : tres | ||
Etymology
From Portuguese três.
Kristang
Etymology
From Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Latin
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Cardinal: trēs Ordinal: tertius Adverbial: ter Multiplier: triplex, triplus Distributive: ternus, trīnus Collective: terniō Fractional: triēns |
Alternative forms
- tris
- Symbol: III
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /treːs/, [t̪reːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tres/, [t̪rɛs]
Numeral
trēs (neuter tria); third-declension two-termination numeral, plural only
- 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
- tria Cerberus extulit ora et tres latratus semel edidit
Usage notes
See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective, plural only.
Number | Plural | |
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter |
Nominative | trēs | tria |
Genitive | trium | |
Dative | tribus | |
Accusative | trēs trīs |
tria |
Ablative | tribus | |
Vocative | trēs | tria |
Derived terms
- tri-
- triduus
- trihōrius
- trimēstris
- trīmulus
- trīmus
Related terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: tres
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
- (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
Middle English
Middle French
Norwegian Bokmål
Occitan
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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/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: tres
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾes̺/
Old Spanish
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Cardinal : tres Ordinal : tercero | ||
Alternative forms
- III (representation in Roman numerals)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/
Related terms
Descendants
- Spanish: tres
Papiamentu
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Cardinal : tres | ||
Etymology
From Portuguese três and Spanish tres and Kabuverdianu tres.
Portuguese
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Sardinian
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Cardinal : tres | ||
Etymology
From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtɾɛː.zɛ̆]
Spanish
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Cardinal: tres Ordinal: tercero Apocopated ordinal: tercer Ordinal abbreviation: 3.º Multiplier: triple Fractional: tercio | ||
Spanish Wikipedia article on 3 |
Etymology
Inherited from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: tres
Derived terms
- a dos por tres
- andar a tres menos cuartillo
- cada dos por tres
- como tres y dos son cinco
- de tres al cuarto
- de tres pares de narices
- en un dos por tres
- hambre de tres semanas
- la Ciudad de las Tres Culturas
- ni a la de tres
- no ver tres en un burro
- pasarse tres pueblos
- regla de tres
- sombrero de tres candiles
- sombrero de tres picos
- tres cuartos de lo mismo
- tres en raya
Further reading
- “tres”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
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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 |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾes/, [ˈtɾɛs]
Related terms
- alas-tres
- beynte tres
- ikatres
- kuwarenta y tres
- nobenta y tres
- otsenta y tres
- sesenta y tres
- setenta y tres
- singkuwenta y tres
- tersiyopelo
- Tres Marias
- treynta y tres
- tridwo
Further reading
- “tres”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018