trois
French
| 30 | ||
| ← 2 | 3 | 4 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: trois Ordinal: troisième Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème Multiplier: triple Fractional: tiers | ||
| French Wikipedia article on 3 | ||
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Old French trois, treis, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁwa/ ~ /tʁwɑ/, [t̪χwa]
Audio (France): (file) - (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): [tʁwɔ]
Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Paris)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France): (file) Audio (France (Grenoble)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Hérault)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Massy)): (file) - Homophone: Troyes
- Rhymes: -a
Numeral
trois (invariable)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
| Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as | deux | trois | quatre | cinq | six | sept |
| huit | neuf | dix | valet | dame | roi | joker |
Further reading
- “trois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Old French
Alternative forms
- treis (12th c., or Anglo-Norman)
- troys
- troi (“troy”) (sometimes used with nomin. plurals that do not end in -s)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾoi̯s/
Numeral
| 3 | Previous: | deus |
|---|---|---|
| Next: | quatre |
trois
Descendants
- Middle French: troys
- Norman: trais
- Walloon: troes
- → Middle English: trey, trais, tray, treis, treys, treyse
- English: trey
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /trɔi̯s/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /trɔi̯ʃ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /trɔi̯s/
Verb
trois
- first-person singular preterite of troi