tris

Abbreviation of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane.

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: Tris

tris (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A flammable compound which forms a corrosive solution in water and is used as a buffer and emulsifying agent.

• tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, tris buffer, THAM
• trometamol, tromethamine (used for drugs)

Abbreviation of tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate.

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: Tris

tris (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A phosphoric acid ester C₉H₁₅Br₆O₄P formerly used to flameproof clothes and especially children's nightclothes until it was found to cause cancer in animals.

From tri +‎ -s.

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪz
• Homophone: tries

tris

1. plural of tri

• “tris”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “tris”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• tris legomenon

• STIR, RTIs, rits, Rist, ISTR, TIRs, stir, sirt, SIRT

tris m

1. plural of tri

• tirs

Guinea-Bissau Creole cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tris

From Portuguese três. Cognate with Kabuverdianu tres.

tris

1. three (3)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtris/
• Rhymes: -is
• Hyphenation: trìs

tris m (invariable)

1. prile
2. (card games, poker) three of a kind
3. trio (three varieties as a unit)

   Un tris di baccalà ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   il tris di primi piatti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (games) tic-tac-toe

• tris in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Inherited from French triste (“sad”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾis/
• Rhymes: -is

tris

1. sad

   Antonyms: èrè, gé, konten

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲrʲis/

Old Irish ordinal numbers

<  2nd	3rd	4th  >
Cardinal : trí     Ordinal : tris

tris

1. third

Usually uninflected, but sometimes as an o/ā-stem:

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tris	tris	tris
Vocative	tris
Accusative	tris	tris
Genitive	tris	tresi	tris
Dative	triuss	tris	triuss
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	tris	trisa
Vocative	trisu trisa†
Accusative	trisu trisa†
Genitive	tris
Dative	trisaib
Notes	† not when substantivized

• Middle Irish: tres
  • Irish: treas

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tris	thris	tris pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tress”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /tríːs/

trȋs m inan

1. (poker) three of a kind

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	tris
gen. sing.	trisa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	tris	trisa	trisi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	trisa	trisov	trisov
dative (dajȃlnik)	trisu	trisoma	trisom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	tris	trisa	trise
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	trisu	trisih	trisih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	trisom	trisoma	trisi

Poker hands in Slovene · poker karte (layout · text)
najvišja karta	par	dva para	tris	lestvica, kenta
barva	full house	poker	barvna lestvica	kraljeva lestvica

• “tris”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

tris m (plural tris)

1. crack (sound)

• “tris”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28