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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tréyes, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognates include Sanskrit त्रि (tri), Latin trēs, Old Armenian երեք (erekʻ) and Old English þrēo (English three).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trêːs/ → /tris/ → /tris/
Numeral
τρεῖς • (treîs) (ordinal τρῐ́τος, adverbial τρῐ́ς)
- three
Declension
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References
- “τρεῖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τρεῖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τρεῖς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τρεῖς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- τρεῖς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τρεῖς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5140 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.