tret
See also: trèt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology 1
Old French traire, from Latin trahēre.
Noun
tret (plural trets)
- (obsolete) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.
Etymology 2
From Middle English, analogous with Germanic verbs such as meet, met.
Verb
tret
- (Northern England, Bristol, colloquial) simple past tense and past participle of treat
Anagrams
- tert-, tetr-
Albanian
Etymology
Variant of tres.
Verb
tret (first-person singular past tense treta, participle tretur)
- I dissolve, digest, melt down, lose weight
- I throw away
Catalan
Etymology 1
From Latin tractus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈtɾet/
- Rhymes: -et
Noun
tret m (plural trets)
- trait
- Synonyms: qualitat, característica, propietat, atribut
- shot (with a gun)
Etymology 2
From treure.
Preposition
tret
- except
- Synonyms: tret de, excepte, exceptuant
Verb
tret
- past participle of treure
- past participle of traure
Further reading
- “tret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tret”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “tret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tret” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.