τρίτος

Ancient Greek

**Ancient Greek ordinal numbers**
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Cardinal : τρεῖς (treîs) Ordinal : τρίτος (trítos) Adverbial : τριάκις (triákis)

Etymology

From τρι- (tri-), the stem of τρεῖς (treîs, “three”), -τος (-tos, adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trí.tos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/

Adjective

τρῐ́τος • (trítos) m (feminine τρῐ́τη, neuter τρῐ́τον); first/second declension

(ordinal) third

Declension

First and second declension of τρῐ́τος; τρῐ́τη; τρῐ́τον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	τρῐ́τος trítos	τρῐ́τη trítē	τρῐ́τον tríton	τρῐ́τω trítō	τρῐ́τᾱ trítā	τρῐ́τω trítō	τρῐ́τοι trítoi	τρῐ́ται trítai	τρῐ́τᾰ tríta
Genitive	τρῐ́του trítou	τρῐ́της trítēs	τρῐ́του trítou	τρῐ́τοιν trítoin	τρῐ́ταιν trítain	τρῐ́τοιν trítoin	τρῐ́των trítōn	τρῐ́των trítōn	τρῐ́των trítōn
Dative	τρῐ́τῳ trítōi	τρῐ́τῃ trítēi	τρῐ́τῳ trítōi	τρῐ́τοιν trítoin	τρῐ́ταιν trítain	τρῐ́τοιν trítoin	τρῐ́τοις trítois	τρῐ́ταις trítais	τρῐ́τοις trítois
Accusative	τρῐ́τον tríton	τρῐ́την trítēn	τρῐ́τον tríton	τρῐ́τω trítō	τρῐ́τᾱ trítā	τρῐ́τω trítō	τρῐ́τους trítous	τρῐ́τᾱς trítās	τρῐ́τᾰ tríta
Vocative	τρῐ́τε tríte	τρῐ́τη trítē	τρῐ́τον tríton	τρῐ́τω trítō	τρῐ́τᾱ trítā	τρῐ́τω trítō	τρῐ́τοι trítoi	τρῐ́ται trítai	τρῐ́τᾰ tríta
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	τρῐ́τως trítōs			τρῐτώτερος tritṓteros			τρῐτώτᾰτος tritṓtatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

τρίτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
τρίτος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
τρίτος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
τρίτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
τρίτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
τρίτος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G5154 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- third idem, page 867.

Greek

Adjective

τρίτος • (trítos) m (feminine τρίτη, neuter τρίτο)

(ordinal) third
ο τρίτος δρόμος ― o trítos drómos ― the third way

Declension

positive forms of τρίτος

number case / gender	singular			plural
number case / gender	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	τρίτος	τρίτη	τρίτο	τρίτοι	τρίτες	τρίτα
genitive	τρίτου	τρίτης	τρίτου	τρίτων	τρίτων	τρίτων
accusative	τρίτο	τρίτη	τρίτο	τρίτους	τρίτες	τρίτα
vocative	τρίτε	τρίτη	τρίτο	τρίτοι	τρίτες	τρίτα

Related terms

(abbreviation): 3ος (3os)

and see: τρία (tría, “three”)

τρίτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Declension

References

Greek

Adjective

Declension

Related terms

See also