"τρεῖς" meaning in Ancient Greek

See τρεῖς in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Numeral

IPA: /trêːs/, /tris/, /tris/, /trêːs/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /tris/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /tris/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /tris/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /tris/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
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). Etymology templates: {{inh|grc|grk-pro|*tréyes}} Proto-Hellenic *tréyes, {{inh|grc|ine-pro|*tréyes}} Proto-Indo-European *tréyes, {{cog|sa|त्रि}} Sanskrit त्रि (tri), {{cog|la|trēs}} Latin trēs, {{cog|xcl|երեք|}} Old Armenian երեք (erekʻ), {{cog|ang|þrēo}} Old English þrēo, {{cog|en|three}} English three Head templates: {{grc-num|adv=τρῐ́ς|ord=τρῐ́τος}} τρεῖς • (treîs) (ordinal τρῐ́τος, adverbial τρῐ́ς) Inflection templates: {{grc-adecl|irreg|τρεῖς|τρῐῶν|τρῐσῐ́(ν)|τρεῖς|τρεῖς|τρῐῶν|τρῐσῐ́(ν)|τρεῖς|τρῐ́α|form=P}} Forms: treîs [romanization], τρῐ́τος [ordinal], τρῐ́ς [adverbial], Attic irregular [table-tags], τρεῖς [masculine, nominative, plural], τρεῖς [feminine, nominative, plural], τρῐ́α [neuter, nominative, plural], τρῐῶν [genitive, masculine, plural], τρῐῶν [feminine, genitive, plural], τρῐῶν [genitive, neuter, plural], τρῐσῐ́ [dative, masculine, plural], τρῐσῐ́ν [dative, masculine, plural], trĭsĭ́(n) [dative, masculine, plural], τρῐσῐ́ [dative, feminine, plural], τρῐσῐ́ν [dative, feminine, plural], trĭsĭ́(n) [dative, feminine, plural], τρῐσῐ́ [dative, neuter, plural], τρῐσῐ́ν [dative, neuter, plural], trĭsĭ́(n) [dative, neuter, plural], τρεῖς [accusative, masculine, plural], τρεῖς [accusative, feminine, plural], τρῐ́α [accusative, neuter, plural], - [masculine, plural, vocative], - [feminine, plural, vocative], - [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. three Categories (topical): Ancient Greek cardinal numbers Derived forms: τρῐ- (trĭ-), τρισσός (trissós), τριττύς (trittús)
    Sense id: en-τρεῖς-grc-num-i1udsME9 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "τρεις"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: τρεις (treis)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: τρεις (treis)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
        "3": "*tréyes"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *tréyes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*tréyes"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *tréyes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "त्रि"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit त्रि (tri)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "trēs"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin trēs",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xcl",
        "2": "երեք",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old Armenian երեք (erekʻ)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "þrēo"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English þrēo",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "three"
      },
      "expansion": "English three",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "treîs",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́τος",
      "tags": [
        "ordinal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́ς",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic irregular",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́α",
      "roman": "trĭ́a",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐῶν",
      "roman": "trĭôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐῶν",
      "roman": "trĭôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐῶν",
      "roman": "trĭôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́ν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trĭsĭ́(n)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́ν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trĭsĭ́(n)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́ν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trĭsĭ́(n)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́α",
      "roman": "trĭ́a",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adv": "τρῐ́ς",
        "ord": "τρῐ́τος"
      },
      "expansion": "τρεῖς • (treîs) (ordinal τρῐ́τος, adverbial τρῐ́ς)",
      "name": "grc-num"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "irreg",
        "10": "τρῐ́α",
        "2": "τρεῖς",
        "3": "τρῐῶν",
        "4": "τρῐσῐ́(ν)",
        "5": "τρεῖς",
        "6": "τρεῖς",
        "7": "τρῐῶν",
        "8": "τρῐσῐ́(ν)",
        "9": "τρεῖς",
        "form": "P"
      },
      "name": "grc-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Ancient Greek cardinal numbers",
          "parents": [
            "Cardinal numbers",
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "trĭ-",
          "word": "τρῐ-"
        },
        {
          "roman": "trissós",
          "word": "τρισσός"
        },
        {
          "roman": "trittús",
          "word": "τριττύς"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "three"
      ],
      "id": "en-τρεῖς-grc-num-i1udsME9",
      "links": [
        [
          "three",
          "three"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/trêːs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/trêːs/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "τρεῖς"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "trĭ-",
      "word": "τρῐ-"
    },
    {
      "roman": "trissós",
      "word": "τρισσός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "trittús",
      "word": "τριττύς"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "τρεις"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: τρεις (treis)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: τρεις (treis)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
        "3": "*tréyes"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *tréyes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*tréyes"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *tréyes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "त्रि"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit त्रि (tri)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "trēs"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin trēs",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xcl",
        "2": "երեք",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old Armenian երեք (erekʻ)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "þrēo"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English þrēo",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "three"
      },
      "expansion": "English three",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "treîs",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́τος",
      "tags": [
        "ordinal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́ς",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic irregular",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́α",
      "roman": "trĭ́a",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐῶν",
      "roman": "trĭôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐῶν",
      "roman": "trĭôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐῶν",
      "roman": "trĭôn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́ν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trĭsĭ́(n)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́ν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trĭsĭ́(n)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐσῐ́ν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trĭsĭ́(n)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρεῖς",
      "roman": "treîs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τρῐ́α",
      "roman": "trĭ́a",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adv": "τρῐ́ς",
        "ord": "τρῐ́τος"
      },
      "expansion": "τρεῖς • (treîs) (ordinal τρῐ́τος, adverbial τρῐ́ς)",
      "name": "grc-num"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "irreg",
        "10": "τρῐ́α",
        "2": "τρεῖς",
        "3": "τρῐῶν",
        "4": "τρῐσῐ́(ν)",
        "5": "τρεῖς",
        "6": "τρεῖς",
        "7": "τρῐῶν",
        "8": "τρῐσῐ́(ν)",
        "9": "τρεῖς",
        "form": "P"
      },
      "name": "grc-adecl"
    }
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  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek 1-syllable words",
        "Ancient Greek cardinal numbers",
        "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
        "Ancient Greek lemmas",
        "Ancient Greek numerals",
        "Ancient Greek perispomenon terms",
        "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic",
        "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic",
        "Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "three"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "three",
          "three"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/trêːs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/trêːs/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tris/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "τρεῖς"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.