"three" in seven languages
Meaningthree
Spanish
tres
/tɾes/
inherited
French
trois
/tʁwa/
inherited
Italian
tre
/tre/
inherited
Portuguese
três
/tɾes/
inherited
Romanian
trei
/trej/
inherited
Catalan
tres
/tɾɛs/
inherited
English
three
/θɹi/
Indo-European kin · PIE *tréyes
English → ItalianthreetreDistant cognateRelated only through Indo-European, thousands of years back (night ~ noche). But English has relatives: trio, triple, trinity.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
TRĒS‘three’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish and French keep Latin's final -s; Italian, which dropped final -s everywhere, says tre.
English relatives: trio, triple, trinity
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In a sentence
- esTres entradas, por favor.
- frTrois billets, s'il vous plaît.
- itTre biglietti, per favore.
- ptTrês ingressos, por favor.
- roTrei bilete, vă rog.
- caTres entrades, si us plau.
- enThree tickets, please.