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

• tresero

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• 'rest, -ster, ERTs, REST, Rest., SERT, erst, rest, rest., rets

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *trõtja, etymologically identical with Proto-Slavic *tratjǫ (“to spend, to waste”).

Noun

tres (aorist treta, participle tretur)

1. I dissolve, digest, melt down, lose weight
2. I throw away

Derived terms

• tretje

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Aragonese

Etymology

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

Numeral

tres

1. three

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Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

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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

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Catalan

Catalan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tres     Ordinal : tercer     Multiplier : triple
Catalan Wikipedia article on Tres

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾɛs]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɾəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [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

• “tres” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -as

Numeral

tres

1. sixty

Related terms

• tressende
• tresindstyvende

References

“tres” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Galician

Galician cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tres     Ordinal : terceiro
Galician Wikipedia article on Tres

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Numeral

tres (indeclinable)

1. three

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Interlingua

Numeral

tres

1. three

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Kabuverdianu

Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tres

Etymology

From Portuguese três.

Numeral

tres

1. three (3)

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Kristang

Etymology

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

Numeral

tres

1. three

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Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: trēs     Ordinal: tertius     Adverbial: ter     Proportional: triplus     Multiplier: triplex     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 Latin) IPA^(key): /treːs/, [t̪reːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tres/, [t̪rɛs]

• Audio (Classical):

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Cerberus canis trium capitum est (Cerberus is a three-headed dog).

Numeral

trēs (neuter tria); third-declension two-termination numeral, plural only

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 two-termination adjective, plural only.

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

• tri-
• triduus
• trihōrius
• trimēstris
• trīmulus
• trīmus

 

Related terms

• tertiārius
• tertius
• trias
• triplex

Descendants

• Aromanian: trei
• Asturian: tres
• Dalmatian: tra
• Franco-Provençal: três
• Old French: trois, treis (12th c., or Anglo-Norman), troys
  • Middle French: troys
    • French: trois
      • Haitian Creole: twa
      • Louisiana Creole: trò, trwa
  • Norman: trais
  • Walloon: troes
• Friulian: trê
• Istro-Romanian: trei
• Italian: tre
• Ladin: trei
• Ladino: trez
• Ligurian: træ
• Megleno-Romanian: trei
• Neapolitan: trei, tre, tréje
• Old Occitan: tres
  • Catalan: tres
  • Occitan: tres
• Old Portuguese: tres
• Romanian: trei
• Romansch: trais
• Sardinian: tres
• Sicilian: tri
• Spanish: tres
• Venetian: tre

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
    

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Middle English

Noun

tres

1. plural of tre

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Middle French

Adverb

tres

1. manuscript form of trés

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tres

1. passive of tre (Etymologies 3 & 4)

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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

Related terms

• trenta
• tresen

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Old Occitan

Numeral

tres

1. three (3)

Descendants

• Catalan: tres
• Occitan: tres

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Old Portuguese

Numeral

tres

1. three (3)

Descendants

• Galician: tres
• Portuguese: três

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Papiamentu

Papiamentu cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tres

Etymology

From Portuguese três and Spanish tres and Kabuverdianu tres.

Numeral

tres

1. three (3)

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Portuguese

Adjective

tres

1. Obsolete spelling of três.

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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

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Sardinian

Sardinian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tres

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɛs/, [ˈtrɛzɛ̆]

Numeral

tres

1. (Limba Sarda Comuna) three

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Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

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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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes]

Numeral

tres

1. three

Derived terms

• cada dos por tres
• como tres y dos son cinco
• de tres al cuarto
• ni a la de tres
• no ver tres en un burro
• pasarse tres pueblos
• regla de tres
• tres cuartos del mismo
• tres en raya

 

Related terms

• tercer
• tercia
• terciario
• tercio
• trece
• trenta

 

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Tagalog

Tagalog cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tres     Ordinal : ika-tres

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

Numeral

tres

1. three

   Synonym: tatlo