tre

tre (plural tres)

1. Obsolete form of tree.
   • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:

     They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it w^t nales and hammers, that it moue not.

• tre corde

Albanian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tretë

From Proto-Albanian *treje, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate to Latin trēs (“three”) and Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾɛ/

tre

1. three

• tri

tre

1. very

   Mat-tre!

   Very good!

From Proto-Brythonic *treβ, from Proto-Celtic *trebā, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Cognate with Welsh tref

tre f (plural trevow)

1. home, homestead
2. town, village

tre

1. at home
2. back, homewards

Danish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tredje

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ f pl (þrijoʀ), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).

The modern Danish form is a merger of the original East Old Norse accusative masculine þrēa (West þrjá) and the nominative/accusative feminine þrēaʀ (West þrjár).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢʁ̥ɛˀ]

tre

1. three

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

Borrowed from French très.

• IPA^(key): [tre]

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• Hyphenation: tre

tre

1. very

• → Ido: tre

Borrowed from Esperanto tre, French très.

• IPA^(key): /tre/

tre

1. very

Italian numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: tre     Ordinal: terzo     Ordinal abbreviation: 3º     Adverbial: tre volte     Multiplier: triplo, triplice     Collective: tutti e tre     Fractional: terzo
Italian Wikipedia article on 3

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtre/^*

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• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: tré

tre (invariable)

1. three

tre m (invariable)

1. three

Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
asso	due	tre	quattro	cinque	sei	sette
otto	nove	dieci	fante	donna, regina	re	jolly, joker, matta

From Sanskrit त्रयः (trayaḥ), from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tre

1. three; 3

Kamviri cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre

Kativiri cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre

From Proto-Nuristani *tre, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe/

tre (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri, Western Kata-viri)^[1]

1. three

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɾe]

tre (masculine ordinal terzo, feminine ordinal terza)

1. (Old Lombard) three
   • 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:

     In questo nostro libro da tre guis è scrigiura:

     In this book we deal with three types of writing:

• Lombard: trè, trii

• tree, treo, trew, trewe, treou, trow, trowe

From Old English trēow, from Proto-West Germanic *treu, in turn from Proto-Germanic *trewą. Ultimately descended from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /trøː/
• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

tre (plural tres or treen)

1. a tree or a plant that resembles one
2. wood; timber
   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, II. Timothy II:20:

     In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: tree
• Scots: tree
• Yola: tren (plural)

• “trẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• tré, tri, trí

From Old Irish tre, from Proto-Celtic *trei (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”); compare Sanskrit तिरस् (tiras), Latin trāns and Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh).

• IPA^(key): /tʲrʲe/

tre (with the accusative; triggers lenition)

1. through
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, line 11:

     Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori.

     [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons.

• Second person singular: triut, tréot
• Third person singular feminine: trethe, trithe

Forms combined with a definite article:

• tríasin (“through the m sg or f sg”)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• tret, tríat (“through your sg”)

• Irish: trí, tré, tré- (combining), fríd (Ulster), thrí (Galway), ⇒ fríd
• Scottish Gaelic: tre
• ⇒ Manx: trooid

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• tréje

Inherited from Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtre/

tre

1. three

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 285: “tre; quattro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tredje

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

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• IPA^(key): /tɾeː/

tre

1. three

• tredje

From Old Norse tré (“tree; beam”), from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), possibly from *drew- (“hard, firm, strong, solid”).

The plurals trær and trærne are derived from Danish træ.

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• IPA^(key): /tɾeː/

tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre or trær, definite plural trea or trærne)

1. tree
2. wood

   Dette bordet er lagd av tre.

   This table is made of wood.

From Middle Low German treden.

tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past trådte, past participle trådt, present participle tredende)

1. to step (in, out etc.), to tread

   (military) Tre av! - Dismissed!

   (legislation etc.) tre i kraft - come into effect, come into force

• framtre, fremtre
• fratre
• opptre
• overtre

From tråd.

• træ

tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past tredde, past participle tredd)

1. to thread

   tre en nål ― thread a needle

• “tre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tredje

• tri (three, dialectal, also Høgnorsk)
• trí, trjå, trjú (three, dialectal, gender-depending)

• IPA^(key): /treː/, [tʁeː], [treː], [tɾeː]

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From Old Norse þrír probably through Danish tre, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir, English three.

tre

1. three

From Old Norse tré, from Proto-Germanic *trewą, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru. Akin to English tree.

tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre, definite plural trea)

1. tree

   Trea i skogen var gamle.

   The trees in the forest were old.

2. wood

From earlier treda, from Middle Low German treden, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną. Doublet of trø and trå. Akin to English tread.

tre (present tense trer, past tense tredde, supine tredd or trett, past participle tredd, present participle treande, imperative tre)

1. (intransitive) to tread, step
   • 1878 June 19, “Peter Schlemihl”, in Fedraheimen, page 135:

     han skynade mi Meining og trod tvo Stig attende.

     He got the memo, and took two steps back.

This verb is inflected as a short-formed weak e-verb, according to current standardization. The short form was introduced in 1959, and the weak past tense tredde was introduced in 1991, two developments made final by the reform of 2012. There is an outline of the development within the table below. The history is also intertwined with its semantically overlapping doublet, trå, as their inflections have been suppletive of each other.

Historical inflection of tre, treda and trede infinitive present tense past tense supine Aasen sg. treda tred trod tradet pl. treda trodo 1901 treda tred trod trade 1917 treda [trede] tred [treder] trod trode 1938 treda [trede] tred [treder] trod tradi 1959 tre, treda, trede trer, tred [treder] tro, trod trådd 1985 tre, treda, trede trer, tred [treder] tro, trod, trådde trede, tredi, trådd, trådt 1991 tre, treda, trede trer, tred, treder tredde, tro, trod tredd, tredt, trede, tredi 2012 (current) tre trer tredde tredd, trett

• treda, trede (long forms) (non-standard since 2012)

• opptre
• tre av
• tre fram
• tre i kraft

• trå (Etymology 3)

tre (present tense trer, past tense tredde, past participle tredd, imperative tre)

1. Misspelling of træ.

• “tre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ert, ret, ter

tre

1. Alternative form of tri

Piedmontese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs. Cognates include Italian tre and French trois.

• IPA^(key): /trɛ/

tre

1. three

tre

1. (nonstandard) alternative typography of tre’

From Old Irish tri (“through”), from Proto-Celtic *trei (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”).

tre (+ dative, triggers lenition)

1. through, by means of

Swedish numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: tre     Ordinal: tredje     Ordinal abbreviation: 3:e     Multiplier: trefaldig     Collective: trio     Fractional: tredjedel

From Old Swedish þrir, þrī, from Runic Swedish þrīR, from Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Norwegian and Danish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

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tre

1. three

• trenne (archaic)

• trea
• tredje

• noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

• tre in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tre in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tre in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• ert, ter

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From Proto-Tocharian *treyä, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate with Tocharian B trey, trai.

tre

1. three

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “trai”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 339-340

Tregami cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre

From Proto-Nuristani *tre, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe/

tre (Gambir)^[1]

1. three

tre

1. Romanization of 𐌕𐌓𐌄

Inherited from Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.

tre

1. three

• tri

• (certain coastal Northern dialects, endangered) te (dialects with /ʈ/-/t/ merger)

From Middle Vietnamese tle, from Proto-Vietic *k-lɛː. Compare also Proto-Katuic *ʔalɛɛ (“type of bamboo”) (whence Pacoh ale (“small bamboo used for spears”)).

Doublet of le (seen in măng le (“kind of wild bamboo shoots”)).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈɛ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʈɛ˧˧]

(classifier cây) tre • (𥯌, 椥)

1. bamboo

Waigali cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre

From Proto-Nuristani *tre, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe/

tre (Nisheigram)^[1]

1. three

• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

tre f (plural trefi)

1. Alternative form of tref