tres

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

English

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

See also

  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *trõtja, etymologically identical with Slavic *tratjǫ, *tratiti '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. ↑ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.464

Aragonese

Etymology

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

Numeral

tres

  1. (cardinal) three

Asturian

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

Etymology 1

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

Numeral

tres (indeclinable)

  1. (cardinal) 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 cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres
    Ordinal : tercer
    Multiplier : triple
Catalan Wikipedia article on tres

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

tres m, f

  1. (cardinal) 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

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Clipping of tresindstyve, from "tre +‎ sinde +‎ tyve", lit. "three times twenty".

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -as

Numeral

tres

  1. (cardinal) sixty

References

“tres” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Galician

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Numeral

tres (indeclinable)

  1. (cardinal) three

Interlingua

Numeral

tres

  1. (cardinal) three

Kristang

Etymology

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

Numeral

tres

  1. (cardinal) three

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers
 <  II III IV  > 
    Cardinal : trēs
    Ordinal : tertius
    Adverbial : ter
    Multiplier : triplex
    Distributive : ternī
Latin Wikipedia article on trēs

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 m pl, f pl (neuter tria); third declension

  1. (cardinal) 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, no singular.

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

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, 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tres/

Numeral

tres

  1. (cardinal) three

Old Occitan

Numeral

tres

  1. three (3)

Descendants

Old Portuguese

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. (cardinal) three (3)


Portuguese

Adjective

tres

  1. Obsolete spelling of três

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Number

tres

  1. (Sutsilvan, cardinal) three

Sardinian

Etymology

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

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Spanish

Spanish cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tres
    Ordinal : tercero
    Multiplier : triple

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾes/, [t̪ɾes]

Numeral

tres

  1. (cardinal) three

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Synonyms

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