tri

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

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪ/

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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

• 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

From English three.

tri

1. three

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

tri m (feminine form teir)

1. three

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

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

tri m (feminine form teyr)

1. three

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tri n (uncountable)

1. synonym for trichloorethyleen, a chemical solvent

• rit

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

tri

1. three

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

• IPA^(key): [tri]
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• Hyphenation: tri

tri

1. three (3)

• trio
• tripunkto (“ellipsis”)

Borrowed from English three.

tri

1. three

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

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

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)

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

tri

1. three

• tiga
• telu

• تري (تري-)

From Sanskrit त्रि (tri), from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

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

tri (Jawi spelling تري)

1. three

• tiga / تيݢ
• telu / تلو

• tri-
• trisula

From English three.

tri

1. three

• 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): [tʲrʲi]

From Proto-Celtic *trē (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”); compare Sanskrit तिरस् (tiras), 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”)

• Middle Irish: tre, tré, tri, trí
  • Irish: trí, tré; tré-; fríd, ⇒ fríd
  • Scottish Gaelic: tre
  • ⇒ Manx: trooid

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 433, 856, pages 272–73, 533–34
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 301

tri

1. Alternative spelling of trí

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-

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)‎, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /trîː/

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trȋ (Cyrillic spelling три)

1. three (3)

• 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.

• trodnevni

From Latin trēs.

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

tri

1. three

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tri.

• IPA^(key): [tri]

tri

1. three (3)

• “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, 2024

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

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˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʈɪj˧˧]

tri

1. to smear; to daub

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”)