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. 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. 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 or f

  1. 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. 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

  • (file)

Numeral

tres (indeclinable)

  1. three

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 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 or f pl (neuter tria); third declension

  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, no singular.

Number Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative trēs tria
Genitive trium trium
Dative tribus tribus
Accusative trēs, trīs tria
Ablative tribus 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. 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. 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) 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. three

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

Numeral

tres

  1. three

Synonyms

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