treu

Borrowed from Old French tref, from Latin trabs. Doublet of trava.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾew]

treu m (plural treus)

1. (nautical) a type of sail

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾew]

treu

1. inflection of treure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of traure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Galician-Portuguese treu (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Old French tref (“tent, mast”).^[1] Doublet of tarabela.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛw/

treu m (plural treus)

1. (nautical) set of sails
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 731:

     Et cõ grã coyta que auía, metíose sobre mar, cõ grandes cõpañas, porlo yr buscar, et tãto singlarõ, a rremos et a treu, ata que chegarõ alý hu el iazía soterrado

     Sorrowful, he went into the sea with a large army, for searching for him, and they navigated for a long time, on oars and sails, until they arrived there where he was buried

   • 1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 53:

     hũu estrenque d'esparto novo et hũu estrenque vello d'esparto, et con seu treu que son tres monetas et hũu papafigo et con todos los outros seus aparellos

     a new rope of esparto, and an old one also of esparto, with its set of sails, composed of three minor sails and a mainsail, with all the additional rigging

2. a square sail

• a treu (“full sail; galore”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “treu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “treu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “treu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “treu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “a treo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Middle High German triuwe, from Old High German triuwi, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz. See English true for more.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔɪ̯/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ̯

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treu (strong nominative masculine singular treuer, comparative treuer, superlative am treuesten or am treusten)

1. loyal; faithful; true

   Willst du deinen eigenen Worten nicht treu bleiben?

   Aren't you going to be true to your own words?

   • c. 1706, Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata BWV 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich:

     Bleibet Gott mein treuer Schatz, achte ich nicht Menschenkreuz.

     If God remains my faithful treasure, I give no care to man’s cruelty.

   • 1966, Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, Die feindlichen Schwestern, Berg: Hohenstaufen Verlag, published 1983, →ISBN, page 276:

     Dir muß man imponieren können, sonst hat man bei dir verspielt. Solange du zu einem Menschen aufsehen mußt, bist du treu, oder was du für Treue hältst. Solche verwöhnten Geschöpfe wie du haben nämlich nie gelernt, was Treu-sein wirklich heißt. Sie kennen nur ihre Eigenliebe und anerkennen nur, was die Nase noch höher trägt als sie, weil das ihrem Selbstgefühl schmeichelt. Doch wenn es einmal darauf ankommt, ein Opfer zu bringen, opfern sie bedenkenlos alles, nur nicht sich selbst.

     One has to impress you, else one has lost you. As long as you have to look up to someone, you're loyal, or what ever you mistake for loyalty. Because such spoiled creatures as you have never learned what being loyal really means. They only know their narcissism and acknowledge only the one's that exhibit even more superiority than themselves because it helps their ego. But when it's time to bring sacrifices, they unhesitatingly offer anything save for themselves.

• untreu
• gesetzestreu
• treuliebend
• Treuhand

• betreuen
• getreu
• treudoof
• Treue

• “treu” in Duden online
• “treu” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

trēu n

1. Alternative form of trēow

• trö

• IPA^(key): /trø/

treu m (plural treu)

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