τρεῖς

See also: τρεις

Ancient Greek

**Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)**
	30
← 2	γʹ 3	4 →
Cardinal: τρεῖς (treîs) Ordinal: τρῐ́τος (trítos) Adverbial: τρῐ́ς (trís) Collective: τρῐᾰ́ς (triás)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tréyes, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognates include Sanskrit त्रि (tri), Latin trēs, Old Armenian երեք (erekʿ) and Old English þrēo (English three).

Pronunciation

(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)

three

Declension

Inflection

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	τρεῖς	τρεῖς	τρία
Genitive	τριῶν	τριῶν	τριῶν
Dative	τρισί(ν)	τρισί(ν)	τρισί(ν)
Accusative	τρεῖς	τρεῖς	τρία

Derived terms

τρῐ- (tri-)
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- three idem, page 869.