The corpus record — Latin

tres

three

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 38 · 355.14/10k
Utrum Pater Et Filius Ac Spiritus Sanctus De Divinitate Substantialiter Praedicentur Liber 4 · 74.91/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 20s 1 · 60.24/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 1 · 49.75/10k
De Regibus 2 · 45.15/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 8 · 27.54/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 2 · 23.53/10k
De Fide Catholica 4 · 20.75/10k
Timaeus 8 · 18.95/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 11 · 18.86/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 27 · 17.83/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 20 · 17.19/10k

Densest 12 of 263 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tres — de Vaan

tres 'three' [num. adj. m.f. tres, n. tria] (VOLat. (Garigliano Bowl trifos [abl.pl.m.]), Lex XII+; acc.mf. tris, gen. trium, databl. tribus; tri~, trj- 'three' in compounds) Derivatives: tertius 'third' (Lex XII, Andr.+), tertiarius [adj.] 'one-third' (Cato+), — [de Vaan, s.v. tres, p. 642]

2. trēs — Lewis & Short

trēs (also treis and trīs; trĭa, num. adj.Sanscr. tri-, trajas; Gr. trei=s, tri/a; Goth. thrija; Germ. drei; Engl. three.

acc. tres and tris),

I Three: duas, tris minas auferunt, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 7: tria corpora, Tris species tam dissimiles, Lucr. 5, 93 sq.: horum trium generum quodvis, Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 42: hoc loquor de tribus his generibus, id. ib. 1, 28, 44: tribus modis, uno ... altero ... tertio ..., Cic. Div. 1, 30, 64: fundos decem et tres reliquit, id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20.—

II To denote a small number: (sermo) tribus verbis, of three words, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 29; so, verbis, id. Trin. 4. 2, 121; cf. Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 33; Ov. P. 4, 3, 26: ego tribus primis verbis, quid noster Paetus; at ille, etc., at the first three words, Cic. Fam. 9, 19, 1: haec omnia in tribus verbis, Quint. 9, 4, 78: chartis, Cat. 1, 5: suavia, id. 79, 4: cum tribus illa bibit, Mart. 13, 124, 2.

3. trés — Walde–Hofmann

trés (Akk, auch tris), tria „drei“, ter „dreimal“ (seit Plaut., rom.): s. oben unter fer, auch zu den Ableitungen; trés = o. trés "trés", - tribulum — tribus. . 703 u. trif, tref Akk. "trs, £ri£a "tria, ai. tráyah, f. tisráh, n. tri (ved.), tríni, av. Orayó, f. tijarü; gr. zpeic, n. 1p(a; alb. tre, f. tri (wohl Neutralform idg. *irz, vgl. G. Meyer Alb. Stud. 3, 79, Pedersen KZ. 34, 291); air. tri, tri, f. teoir, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. trés, p. 1610]

In the wild

6 of 3,109 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. tres (scan p. 642; entry #1842).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. trés (scan p. 725; entry #12062).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. trés (scan pp. 1610-1611; entry #3069). Root candidates: *tisr-.

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