tres

Borrowed from Spanish tres (“three”). Doublet of three and trey.

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.

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tres

1. plural of tre

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

From Proto-Albanian *trōtja, etymologically identical with Proto-Slavic *trǫtja (“to spend, waste”).^[1]

tres (aorist treta, participle tretur)

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

• tretje

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

tres

1. three

• IPA^(key): /tɾes/, [t̪ɾes]

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

tres (indeclinable)

1. three

When there is possibility of confusion with the preposition tres, the numeral tres is accented as trés

From Latin trāns (“beyond, on the other side”).

tres

1. behind, beyond
2. after

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈtɾes]
• Hyphenation: tres

tres (Basahan spelling ᜆ᜔ᜍᜒᜐ᜔)

1. three

   Synonym: tulo

Inherited from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognates include Occitan and Spanish tres, Italian tre, French trois.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

tres m or f

1. (cardinal number) three

• 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”)

tres m (plural tresos)

1. three
2. (castells) a castell with three castellers on each level of the tronc

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

Clipping of tresindstyve.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtˢʁ̥æs]
• Rhymes: -as

tres

1. sixty

   Synonyms: tresindstyve, seksti

• tressende (“sixtieth”)
• tresser (“sixties”)
• tresindstyvende (“sixtieth”)

• “tres” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “tres” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Akin to Spanish, from Latin.

tres

1. three

From Old Galician-Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: tres

tres

1. three

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes̺]

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• Rhymes: -es

tres (indeclinable)

1. three

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈtɾes]
• Hyphenation: tres

tres (Kur-itan spelling ᜆ᜔ᜎᜒᜐ᜔)

1. three

   Synonym: tallo

tres

1. three

From Portuguese três.

tres

1. three (3)

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

tres

1. three

• tris
• Symbol: III

From Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognates include Sanskrit त्रि (trí), Ancient Greek τρεῖς (treîs) and Old English þrēo (English three).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /treːs/, [t̪reːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tres/, [t̪rɛs]

 

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

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

Third-declension two-termination adjective, plural only.

• tertiārius
• tertius
• trias
• triplex

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

• “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^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
    

tres

1. plural of tre

tres

1. manuscript form of trés

tres

1. passive of tre (Etymologies 3 & 4)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/

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• Hyphenation: tres

tres

1. three

• trenta
• tresen

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes̺/

tres

1. three (3)

• Fala: tres
• Galician: tres
• Portuguese: três

tres

1. three (3)

• Occitan: tres

• III (representation in Roman numerals)

From Latin trēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/

tres

1. three

• tercero

• Spanish: tres

From Portuguese três and Spanish tres and Kabuverdianu tres.

tres

1. three (3)

tres

1. Obsolete spelling of três.

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

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

tres

1. (Sutsilvan) three

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtɾɛː.zɛ̆]

tres

1. three

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes]

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• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: tres

tres

1. three

• “tres”, 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

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾɛs]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: tres

tres (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜐ᜔)

1. three

   Synonym: tatlo

2. (basketball) three-point shot

• “tres”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018