# tres
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

tres (plural treses)
* (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

##### Related terms

* tres leches
* tres-tine

##### See also

* Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tres
* plural of tre

### Anagrams

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

## Albanian
### Etymology

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

### Verb

tres (aorist treta, participle tretur)
* to dissolve, digest, melt down, lose weight
* to throw away

#### Derived terms

* tretje

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “tres”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 464

## Aragonese
### Etymology

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

### Numeral

tres
* three

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾes/ [t̪ɾes]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Numeral

tres (indeclinable)
* 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
* behind, beyond
* after

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾes/ [ˈtɾes]
* Hyphenation: tres

### Numeral

tres (Basahan spelling ᜆ᜔ᜍᜒᜐ᜔)
* three
    Synonym: tulo

#### Derived terms

* tersero, terser
* tres siyentos
* trese
* treynta

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈtɾɛs]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈtɾəs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɾes]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛs

### Numeral

tres m or f
* (cardinal number) 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)
* three
* (castells) a castell with three castellers on each level of the tronc

#### Further reading

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

## Danish
### Etymology

Clipping of tresindstyve.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtres/, [ˈtˢʁ̥æs]
* Rhymes: -as

### Numeral

tres
* sixty
    Synonyms: tresindstyve, seksti

#### Related terms

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

#### References

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

## Extremaduran
### Etymology

Akin to Spanish, from Latin.

### Numeral

tres
* three

## Fala
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tres, from Latin trēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾes/
* Rhymes: -es
* Syllabification: tres

### Numeral

tres
* three

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes̺]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -es

### Numeral

tres (indeclinable)
* three

## Ilocano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾes/ [ˈtɾes]
* Hyphenation: tres

### Numeral

tres (Kur-itan spelling ᜆ᜔ᜎᜒᜐ᜔)
* three
    Synonym: tallo

## Interlingua
### Numeral

tres
* three

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese três.

### Numeral

tres
* three (3)

## Kristang
### Etymology

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

### Numeral

tres
* three

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* trez

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tres (“three”), from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Istanbul):(file)

### Numeral

tres (Hebrew spelling טריס)
* three (3) [ca. 1510]
** 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎, page 417:“No… aspera…tengo aínda sesh… sinko…tres…dos… mezes para arivar a sesenta anyos. No mires ke tengo los kaveyos blankos!”“No… wait… I still have six… five… three… two… months before I am sixty years old. Don’t look [at me like] I have grey hair!”

#### Related terms

* terser
* tersio
* tredje
* trenta
* triple

### References

* ↑ “tres”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.
* ↑ Dov Cohen and Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald (2019 June 19) “Coṃpendio delas šeḥiṭót (Constantinople ca. 1510): The First Judeo-Spanish Printed Publication”, in Journal of Jewish Languages, volume 7, number 1, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 47–9

## Latin
### 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: /treːs/, [t̪reːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /tres/, [t̪rɛs]

### Numeral

trēs (neuter tria); third-declension two-termination numeral, plural only
* three; 3
** 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.450–451:tria Cerberus extulit ora et tres latratus semel ediditCerberus 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 formaAnd 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.

#### Derived terms

* tri-
* triduus
* trihōrius
* trimēstris
* trīmulus
* trīmus

#### Related terms

* tertiārius
* tertius
* trias
* triplex

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: trei
** Istro-Romanian: trei
** Megleno-Romanian: trei
** Romanian: trei
* Dalmatian:
** tra
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: trè
** Italian: tre
** Neapolitan: tre, tréje
** Sicilian: tri
* North Italian:
** Friulian: trê
** Ladin: trei
** Ligurian: træ
** Romagnol: tri, trẹ (San Marino)
** Romansch: trais
** Venetan: tre
* Gallo-Romance:
** 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
* Occitano-Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: tres
** Occitan: tres
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: tres
*** Leonese: trés
*** Mirandese: trés
** Old Galician-Portuguese: tres
*** Fala: tres
*** Galician: tres
*** Portuguese: três
** Old Spanish: tres
*** Ladino: trez
*** Spanish: tres
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: tres

#### 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, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo

## Middle English
### Noun

tres
* plural of tre

## Middle French
### Adverb

tres
* manuscript form of trés

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

tres
* 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: /ˈtɾes/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tres

### Numeral

tres
* three

#### Related terms

* trenta
* tresen

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾes̺/

### Numeral

tres
* three (3)

#### Descendants

* Fala: tres
* Galician: tres
* Portuguese: três

## Old Occitan
### Numeral

tres
* three (3)

#### Descendants

* Occitan: tres

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* III (representation in Roman numerals)

### Etymology

From Latin trēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾes/

### Numeral

tres
* three

#### Related terms

* tercero

#### Descendants

* Spanish: tres

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese três and Spanish tres and Kabuverdianu tres.

### Numeral

tres
* three (3)

## Portuguese
### Adjective

tres
* Obsolete spelling of três.

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Number

tres
* (Sutsilvan) three

## Sardinian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtres/, [ˈtɾɛː.zɛ̆]

### Numeral

tres
* three

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -es
* Syllabification: tres

### Numeral

tres
* three

#### Derived terms

* a dos por tres
* a las tres va la vencida
* andar a tres menos cuartillo
* cada dos por tres
* como tres y dos son cinco
* de tres al cuarto
* de tres pares de narices
* dos que tres
* en un dos por tres
* hambre de tres semanas
* la Ciudad de las Tres Culturas
* ni a la de tres
* no ver tres en un burro
* pasarse tres pueblos
* regla de tres
* sombrero de tres candiles
* sombrero de tres picos
* tres cuartos de lo mismo
* tres en raya

#### Related terms

* tercer
* tercia
* terciario
* tercio
* trece
* treinta

### Further reading

* “tres”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

### Pronunciation

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

### Numeral

tres (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜐ᜔)
* three
    Synonym: tatlo
* (basketball) three-point shot

#### Related terms

* a-tres
* a-trese
* alas-tres
* beynte tres
* ikatres
* kuwarenta y tres
* nobenta y tres
* otsenta y tres
* sesenta y tres
* setenta y tres
* singkuwenta y tres
* tersiyopelo
* Tres Marias
* tres-siyete
* trese
* tresyentos
* treynta y tres
* tridwo

### Further reading

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