trece

• trelce

From Latin tredecim.

trece (indeclinable)

1. thirteen

• trecenu

From Old Galician-Portuguese treze, from Latin tredecim.

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• Hyphenation: tre‧ce

trece (indeclinable)

1. thirteen

Inherited from Latin trāicere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtre.t͡ʃe/

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• Rhymes: -et͡ʃe
• Hyphenation: tre‧ce

a trece (third-person singular present trece, past participle trecut) 3rd conj.

1. (intransitive) to pass through (enter and then leave a region in space)

   În loc să treacă prin oraș, șoferii pot folosi drumul de centură.

   Instead of passing through the city, drivers can use the ring road.

   Radiațiile gamma trec prin zece centimetri de plumb.

   Gamma radiation passes through ten centimetres of lead.

   Hainele nu lasă frigul să treacă.

   Clothes do not let the cold pass through.

2. (intransitive) to pass by

   De ce treci fără să saluți?

   Why are you passing by without saying hello?

   De la fereastră se vede toată lumea care trece.

   From the window one can see everybody that passes by.

   Soldatului i-a trecut un glonț pe la ureche.

   A bullet whizzed past the soldier’s ear.

3. (chiefly intransitive with de) to have passed something (leave behind in one’s path)

   Șoferul a trecut de ieșirea de pe autostradă fără să o observe.

   The driver passed the highway exit without noticing it.

   1. (intransitive) to exceed a value

      Luna aceasta temperaturile nu vor trece de 10 grade.

      Temperatures will not exceed 10 degrees this month.

   2. (intransitive, figurative) to leave behind, come to terms with something
4. (transitive) to cross a road, a river or the like
5. (transitive) to take someone over, help cross something

   Bacul ne trece peste Dunăre.

   The ferry is taking us across the Danube.

6. (intransitive, of time) to pass (go by)
7. (intransitive) to pass (be in the past)
   1. (of a sensation, state, emotion) to be over, pass, cease, no longer be felt by someone
8. (intransitive) approach a new action or subject

   a trece la fapte ― to walk the walk

   După montare voi trece la vopsire.

   After putting it together, I’ll go on to paint it.

   Să trecem acum la experiența dumneavoastră profesională.

   Let’s now discuss your work experience.

9. (intransitive) to change into a state

   Molecula trece în starea excitată.

   The molecule enters an excited state.

   A trecut de la prieten la dușman.

   He went from friend to enemy.

10. (intransitive) to make a visit, come over
11. (transitive) to keep track, enter, catalogue, register, list in writing
12. (transitive, intransitive) to pass a test
13. (transitive, informal) to pass a student
14. (copulative) to pass for
15. (intransitive, colloquial, chiefly imperative, potentially rude) to go, move

    Treci înapoi în bancă. ― Back to your desk.

16. (intransitive, less common) to turn into, develop into
17. (reflexive, of produce) to become overripe, go out of season
18. (intransitive, television jargon, of a program) to show (be on television)
19. (reflexive, chiefly in the negative, obsolete, rare, of an endeavour) to succeed for someone
20. (reflexive, most­ly obsolete, of deceit or claims) to be believed

Like some very few other third conjugation verbs, such as crește, trece has a lone imperative identical to the second person present form (treci), while the transitive or reflexive imperative accompanied by an accusative personal pronoun is identical to the third person present or infinitive form: trece-mă, trece-l (“cross me over, cross him over”).

• (leave behind): depăși, lăsa în urmă
• (exceed): depăși, (literary) exceda
• (cross): (chiefly formal) traversa
• (cease): înceta, se termina
• (visit): vizita, (colloquial, of places) da
• (register): cataloga, înregistra, înscrie
• (pass a test): (informal) lua, (formal) promova
• (pass a student): (formal) promova
• (transform): ajunge, deveni, se face, se transforma
• (be believed): (colloquial) ține

• a trecut baba cu colacii
• îi trece prin cap
• îi trece prin minte
• îl trece toate apele
• întrece
• treacă-meargă
• treacăt
• trece ca gâsca prin apă
• trece cu vederea
• trece în revistă
• trecere
• trecător
• trecut

• treaptă
• petrece

• trece in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Inherited from Old Spanish treze, tredze from Latin tredecim.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈtɾeθe/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈtɾese/

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• Rhymes: -eθe
• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: tre‧ce

trece

1. thirteen

• → Cebuano: trese
• → Tagalog: trese

trece m (plural treces)

1. thirteen

trece m or f by sense (plural treces)

1. a member of the Council of Thirteen of the Order of Santiago

• “trece”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014