τρεῖς

See also: τρεις

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	30
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Cardinal: τρεῖς (treîs)     Ordinal: τρῐ́τος (trĭ́tos)     Adverbial: τρῐ́ς (trĭ́s)     Collective: τρῐᾰ́ς (trĭắs)

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trêːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tris/

Numeral

τρεῖς • (treîs) (ordinal τρῐ́τος, adverbial τρῐ́ς)

1. three

Declension

Irregular declension of τρεῖς; τρεῖς; τρῐ́α (Attic)

Number		Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		τρεῖς treîs	τρεῖς treîs	τρῐ́α trĭ́a
Genitive		τρῐῶν trĭôn	τρῐῶν trĭôn	τρῐῶν trĭôn
Dative		τρῐσῐ́ / τρῐσῐ́ν trĭsĭ́(n)	τρῐσῐ́ / τρῐσῐ́ν trĭsĭ́(n)	τρῐσῐ́ / τρῐσῐ́ν trĭsĭ́(n)
Accusative		τρεῖς treîs	τρεῖς treîs	τρῐ́α trĭ́a
Vocative		—	—	—
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τρῐ- (trĭ-)
• τρισσός (trissós)
• τριττύς (trittús)

Descendants

• Greek: τρεις (treis)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • three idem, page 869.