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., '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

Aragonese cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tres

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

tres

1. three

Asturian cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tres     Ordinal : terceru

• IPA^(key): /tɾes/ [t̪ɾes]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: tres

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”). Compare Spanish tras.

tres

1. behind, beyond
2. after

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “tres”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “tres”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tres     Ordinal: tercer     Ordinal abbreviation: 3r     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: terç
Catalan Wikipedia article on 3

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]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Central Bikol numbers ^(edit)

	30[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: tulo, tres     Ordinal: ikatulo, tersero

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

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

tres (Basahan spelling ᜆ᜔ᜍᜒᜐ᜔)

1. three

   Synonym: tulo

Clipping of tresindstyve.

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

tres

1. sixty

   Synonyms: tresindstyve, seksti

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

• → Faroese: trýss

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

Akin to Spanish, from Latin.

tres

1. three

Fala numbers ^(edit)

←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tres     Ordinal: terceiru

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, page 273

Galician numbers ^(edit)

	30
[a], [b], [c] ←  2	3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal (standard): tres     Cardinal (reintegrationist): três     Ordinal: terceiro     Ordinal abbreviation: 3º     Multiplier: triplo     Fractional (standard): terzo     Fractional (reintegrationist): terço
Galician Wikipedia article on 3

• três (reintegrationist)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes̺]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -es
• Hyphenation: tres

tres (indeclinable)

1. three

• “tres”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

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

tres (Kur-itan spelling ᜆ᜔ᜎᜒᜐ᜔)

1. three

   Synonym: tallo

Borrowed from Dutch tres, from French tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia < Ancient Greek.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛs/ [ˈt̪rɛs]
• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: tres

tres (plural tres-tres)

1. (fashion) tress, braid, plait

Borrowed from English trace, from Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛs/ [ˈt̪rɛs]
• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: tres

tres (plural tres-tres)

1. (mathematics) trace (the sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix)

• “tres”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

tres

1. three

Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tres

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

• trez

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

• Audio (Istanbul):

  (file)

tres (Hebrew spelling טריס)^[1]

1. three (3) [ca. 1510^[2]]
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[2], 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!”

Latin numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	III 3	4  →
Cardinal: trēs     Ordinal: tertius     Adverbial: ter     Proportional: triplus     Multiplier: triplex     Distributive: ternus, trīnus     Collective: terniō     Fractional: triēns

• 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): [ˈtreːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɛs]

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.

• Trifos is an old ablative form.

• 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, 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^[3], 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)

Occitan cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tres     Ordinal : tresen

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

• 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

Old Spanish cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tres     Ordinal : tercero

• III (representation in Roman numerals)

From Latin trēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/

tres

1. three

• tercero

• Spanish: tres

Papiamentu cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tres

From Portuguese três and Spanish tres and Kabuverdianu tres.

tres

1. three (3)

tres m or f

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of três

tres m or f

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of três

tres m (invariable)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) 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

Sardinian cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tres

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtres/, [ˈtɾɛː.zɛ̆]

tres

1. three

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tres     Ordinal: tercero     Apocopated ordinal: tercer     Ordinal abbreviation: 3.º     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: tercio
Spanish Wikipedia article on 3

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾes]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: tres

tres

1. three
   • 2022 June 3, Sandee LaMotte, “El efecto 'Benjamin Button': científicos logran revertir el envejecimiento en ratones. El objetivo es hacer lo mismo con los humanos”, in CNN en Español‎^[4]:

     Los ensayos clínicos que prueban la molécula en humanos han estado en marcha durante tres años, dijo Sinclair.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “tres”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tatlo     Spanish cardinal: tres     Ordinal: ikatlo, ikatatlo, pangatlo     Spanish ordinal: tersero, tersera     Ordinal abbreviation: ika-3, pang-3     Adverbial: makatlo, makaitlo, makatatlo     Multiplier: triple, tatlong ibayo     Distributive: tigtatlo, tatluhan, tatlo-tatlo     Restrictive: tatatlo     Fractional: katlo, sangkatlo, saikatlo
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 3

Borrowed from Spanish tres.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾes/ [ˈt̪ɾɛs]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: tres

tres (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜐ᜔)

1. three

   Synonym: tatlo

2. (basketball) three-point shot

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