tri

Clipping of English Trió or abbreviation of English Tiriyó.

tri

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Trió.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Trió terms

Shortening of words with the initial component derived from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophone: try

tri (plural tris)

1. (chiefly attributive) triathlon

   a tri bike

   a tri suit

2. (computer graphics) triangle
   • 2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:

     The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris. Anything within that range is sufficient to accommodate all superficial anatomical details without resort to optimization beyond normal model cleanup.

   • 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making, page 91:

     Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.

3. (bodybuilding, colloquial, uncommon) triceps

• IRT, RTI, TIR, Tir, rit

From Proto-Albanian *trī(-ā), from Proto-Indo-European *tríh₂ (“three”). Cognate to Ancient Greek τρία (tría, “three”) and Latin tria (“three”).

tri

1. three

• Tri is used with feminine nouns.

• tre

From English three.

• IPA^(key): /tri/

tri (Bengali script ত্রি)

1. three

• tham
• rongtham
• tiin

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

From English tree.

tri

1. tree

Bislama cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tri

From English three.

tri

1. three

Breton numbers ^(edit)

	30
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal (masculine): tri     Cardinal (feminine): teir     Ordinal: trede     Ordinal abbreviation: 3e

From Middle Breton try, from Old Breton tri, from Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *trīs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tri m (feminine teir)

1. three

Cornish numbers ^(edit)

	30
[a], [b] ←  2	3 3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal (masculine): tri     Cardinal (feminine): teyr     Ordinal: tressa     Ordinal abbreviation: 3a     Adverbial: teyrgweyth     Multiplier: tryflek     Fractional: tressa rann

• (Standard Cornish) try
• (Standard Written Form) trei

From Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *trīs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /tri/

• Audio:

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tri m (feminine form teyr, triggers aspirate mutation)

1. three

• “tri” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

• Audio:

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tri n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. synonym for trichloorethyleen, a chemical solvent

• rit

Elfdalian cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tri     Ordinal : trið

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

tri

1. three

Esperanto numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tri     Ordinal: tria     Adverbial: trie     Multiplier: triobla, triopa     Fractional: triona, triono

Borrowed from Russian три (tri), Latin trēs, English three, etc., all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /tri/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Audio 3:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: tri

tri

1. three (3)

• trio
• tripunkto (“ellipsis”)

• “tri”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “tri”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present

Borrowed from English three.

tri

1. three

• IPA^(key): /ˈtohtori/, [ˈt̪o̞xt̪o̞ri]
• Rhymes: -ohtori

tri

1. abbreviation of tohtori

Only used in writing and together with a name, and is thus not inflected. For example in phrase tri Pentti Arajärvi only the family name Arajärvi is inflected.

Tämä tri Pentti Arajärven artikkeli on mielenkiintoinen.

This article written by Dr. Pentti Arajärvi is interesting.

From trier.

• IPA^(key): /tʁi/

tri m (plural tris)

1. selection
2. (computing) sort

• tri à bulles

• “tri”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• rit, rît, tir

Ido numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tri     Ordinal: triesma     Adverbial: trifoye     Multiplier: triopla     Fractional: triima

From Esperanto tri, from English three, French trois, German drei, Spanish tres, Italian tre, Russian три (tri), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tri

1. three (3)

Indonesian cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tri

From Malay tri, from Sanskrit त्रि (tri), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tri

1. three

   Synonyms: tiga, telu

Malay numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tiga, tri, telu     Ordinal: ketiga     Fractional: pertiga

Borrowed from Sanskrit त्रि (tri), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /təri/
• Rhymes: -əri, -ri, -i

tri (Jawi spelling تري)

1. three

   Synonyms: tiga, telu

From English three.

tri

1. three

Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tri     Ordinal : tridje

• tre

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, English three.

• IPA^(key): /triː/

tri m (feminine trjå, neuter try or trju)

1. three; (pre-2012) alternative form of tre

   Trjå matskeider salt.

   Three tablespoons of salt.

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʲɾʲi/

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

• tre, tré, trí

tri (with the accusative; triggers lenition)

1. through

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tri.

Forms combined with a definite article:

• tris(s)in (“through the m sg or f sg”)
• tris(s)a (“through the n sg”)
• trisna (“through the pl”)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• trim, trem (“through my”)
• tria, trea (“through his/her/its/their”)

Forms combined with a relative pronoun:

• tresa (“through which”)

• tre-

• Middle Irish: tre, tré, tri, trí
  • 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
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 433, 856, pages 272–73, 533–34; reprinted 2017
• Pedersen, Holger (1913), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 301

tri

1. alternative spelling of trí

Borrowed from Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

tri

1. three

   Synonyms: tĕlu, tiga, traya, tri

• > Javanese: ꦠꦿꦶ (tri) (inherited)

• "tri" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trьje.

tri

1. three

   svätých Troch kráľov; Tri krále ― Epiphany (January 6th) (literally, “of the holy Three Kings”)

   mezi tri prsty ― a pinch (literally, “between three fingers”)

   na tri stupaje ― approx. 3 feet as a legal gap between buildings (literally, “at three footsteps”)

   na tri uhly ― triangular (literally, “on three corners”)

   • 1585, “P. ĽUPČA 1585”, in Majtán, Milan et al., editor, Historický slovník slovenského jazyka, volume 6, Bratislava: VEDA, published 2005, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     na wssecki tri polia

     on all three fields

   • 1640, “ZVOLEN 1640”, in Majtán, Milan et al., editor, Historický slovník slovenského jazyka, volume 6, Bratislava: VEDA, published 2005, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     o trach sem ho tam wydala

     I gave it out there at three [o'clock]

   • 1756, “ZÁBORIE 1756”, in Majtán, Milan et al., editor, Historický slovník slovenského jazyka, volume 6, Bratislava: VEDA, published 2005, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     nic wjce newje swedek, nebo w trech w karti hrali

     the witness knows nothing more, for the three [of them] were playing cards

   • 1785, “BR 1785”, in Majtán, Milan et al., editor, Historický slovník slovenského jazyka, volume 6, Bratislava: VEDA, published 2005, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     prawdu mali, bezpochibi, wssecci trá

     they were right, without a doubt, all three

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “tri”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Possibly borrowed from French très.

• Rhymes: -i

tri

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) cool, nice, good, interesting
2. (Rio Grande do Sul) clipping of trilegal

tri

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) very

   Synonym: tro

• tri-

• “tri”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tri”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin tres (“three”).

• IPA^(key): /tri/

tri

1. three

From English three.

tri

1. three

From English tree.

tri

1. tree

• Mosel, Ulrike (1980), Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎^[1], Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tri     Ordinal: treći     Adverbial: triput, triždi     Multiplier: trostruk, trojno     Collective: troje, trojica     Fractional: trećina

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tri, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tríjes, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /trîː/

• Audio (Serbia):

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trȋ (Cyrillic spelling три̑)

1. three (3)

   Ispred grada tri bilborda stoje ― Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

• As a vestige of the Proto-Slavic dual number, nouns following the numbers 2-4 are in genitive singular.
• In standard Serbo-Croatian, tri declines according to case, but this is not always done in speech.

• tròdnēvnī

Sicilian cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tri     Ordinal : terzu

From the apocope of the intermediate *trii, from Vulgar Latin *trēi, after the final -s iotacism of Latin trēs. Cognate with Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Romanian trei, Italian tre, Neapolitan tréje, Spanish tres. Doublet of tria.

• IPA^(key): /ʈɽi/ (Stressed)
• IPA^(key): /ʈɽi/ (Unstressed)

tri

1. three

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Slovak numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tri     Ordinal: tretí     Multiplier: trikrát, tri razy     Adv. ord. mult. (-krát): tretíkrát     Adv. ord. mult. (raz): tretí raz     Adjectival multiplier: trojnásobný     Adverbial multiplier: trojnásobne     Generic adjectival: trojaký     Generic adverbial: trojako     Collective: troje     Fractional: tretina     Noun: trojka

Inherited from Old Slovak tri.

• IPA^(key): /tri/, [ˈtri]

• Audio (Bratislava):

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• Rhymes: -i

tri

1. three

   tárať dve na tri ― to talk nonsense (literally, “to babble two on three”)

   boli mu tri svety ― he was in seventh heaven (literally, “three worlds were to him”)

   vyzerá, akoby nevedel do troch napočítať ― to look stupid (literally, “looks as if he couldn't count to three”)

   držať niekoho na tri kroky od tela ― to keep someone at arm's length (literally, “to keep someone at three steps from the body”)

   traja zamrznutí svätí ― the ice saints (literally, “three frozen saints”)

   na Tri krále ― on Epiphany (literally, “on Three Kings”)

   V našej záhrade rastú tri staré jablone. ― There are three old apple trees growing in our garden.

   Na lavičke v parku sedeli traja starí kamaráti. ― Three old friends were sitting on a bench in the park.

• Unlike the numerals 5 and above, the numeral tri is always fully declined and the noun must agree in case, gender, and number (e.g., traja chlapi in the masculine personal nominative). Likewise, when the numeral tri is part of the subject of a sentence, the verb must instead agree with the plural subject (e.g., traja chlapi prišli).

• “tri”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

From Proto-Slavic *tri, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tríjes, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /tríː/

trȋ

1. three

This is the usual form used when counting or reciting numbers.

Clipping of tricolor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi/ [ˈt̪ɾi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: tri

tri m (uncountable)

1. (soccer, preceded by "el") the Mexican national football team

   Synonym: tricolor

tri f (uncountable)

1. (soccer, preceded by "la") the Ecuador national football team

   Synonym: tricolor

Tok Pisin numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: tri

From English three.

tri

1. three (3)

Used when counting; see also tripela.

From English three.

tri

1. three

From English tree.

tri

1. tree

From Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.

tri m

1. three

• tre

• trây

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʈɪj˧˧]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tri

1. to smear; to daub

tri

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 知

Welsh numbers ^(edit)

	30[a], [b], [c]
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal (masculine): tri     Cardinal (feminine): tair     Ordinal (masculine): trydydd     Ordinal (feminine): trydedd     Ordinal abbreviation (masculine): 3ydd     Ordinal abbreviation (feminine): 3edd     Adverbial: teirgwaith     Multiplier: triphlyg
Welsh Wikipedia article on 3

From Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *trīs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /triː/
• Rhymes: -iː

tri m (feminine tair)

1. (cardinal number) three

Tri is used only before grammatically masculine nouns. It triggers the aspirate mutation in the written language, but this is heard only occasionally in speech.

• trisain (“triphthong”)