trois

French
French numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: trois
    Ordinal: troisième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème
    Multiplier: triple
    Fractional: tiers
French Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology

Inherited from Old French trois, treis, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʁwa/, /tʁwɑ/
  • Audio (FR)(file)
  • (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): [tʁwɔ]
  • Homophone: Troyes
  • Rhymes: -a

Numeral

trois (invariable)

  1. three

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Haitian Creole: twa
  • Louisiana Creole: trò, trwa

See also
Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text)
as deux trois quatre cinq six sept
huit neuf dix valet dame roi joker

Further reading

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms
  • treis (12th c., or Anglo-Norman)
  • troys
  • troi (“troy”) (sometimes used with nomin. plurals that do not end in -s)

Etymology

From Latin trēs.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾoi̯s/

Numeral
cardinal number
3 Previous: deus
Next: quatre

trois

  1. three

Descendants

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

trois

  1. first-person singular preterite of troi

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
trois drois nhrois throis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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