τρεῖς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=οἱ, αἱ, τρία, τά: gen. <b class="b3">τριῶν</b>: dat. <b class="b3">τρισί</b>, also <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> τριοῖσι <span class="bibl">Hippon. 51</span>, and τρίεσσι <span class="title">Delph.</span>3(5).80.21 (iv B. C.); Aeol. τρίσσι <span class="title">Inscr.Perg.</span> 245 <span class="title">B</span>18 (Pitana): acc. <b class="b3">τρεῖς</b> (written τρες <span class="title">IG</span>12.24.16, 44.15, 188.37, 1085, al.), <b class="b3">τρία</b>: Dor. nom. τρέες <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>9.48; τρῆς <span class="title">IG</span>12(3).1640 (Thera); τρῖς <span class="title">SIG</span>236<span class="title">A</span>10 (Delph., iv B. C.), <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span>1.23; acc. τρίινς <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>5.54, al. (for <b class="b3">Τρίνς</b>, lengthd. to correspond with the other cases); τρῖς <span class="title">IG</span>12.838,839 (vi B. C.), <span class="title">SIG</span>239 <span class="title">D</span> ii 28 (Delph., iv B. C.), <span class="title">Berl.Sitzb.</span>1927.158 (Cyrene):—[[three]], <span class="bibl">Il.15.187</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τρία ἔπεα</b> [[three]] words, prov. in <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>7.48</span>,—for from the earliest times [[three]] was a sacred and lucky number, esp. with the Pythagoreans (cf. [[τριάς]]), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cael.</span>268a11</span>; so τῶν τριῶν μίαν λαβεῖν εὔσοιαν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>122</span>; <b class="b3">εἰ καὶ τῶν τριῶν ἓν οἴσομαι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">908</span>; cf. σωτήρ <span class="bibl">1.2</span>:—<b class="b3">διὰ τριῶν ἀπόλλυμαι</b> I am [[thrice]], i. e. [[utterly]], undone, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>434</span> (cf. [[τριάζω]]) <b class="b3">; ἡ διὰ τριῶν ἀγωγή</b> the 'trivium', <span class="bibl">Simp. <span class="title">in Ph.</span>1171.34</span>; ἵνα δήσῃ τρία τρία <b class="b2">by threes</b>, POxy.121.19 (iii A. D.). (I.-E. stem <b class="b2">trǐ-</b>, fuller form <b class="b2">trey-</b>, nom. <b class="b2">tréy-es</b> (Skt. [[tráyas]], Lat. [[tres]]), whence <b class="b3">τρέες</b>, contr. <b class="b3">τρῆς</b> and <b class="b3">τρεῖς</b> (written τρες <span class="title">IG</span>12.295.11); acc. <b class="b2">tri-ns</b> (Goth. [[prins]], Skt. <b class="b2">tr[imacracute]n</b>), whence <b class="b3">τρῖς</b> and <b class="b3">τρίινς;</b> in Gr. the nom. <b class="b3">τρεῖς</b> functions as acc. (as in Att.), or the acc. <b class="b3">τρῖς</b> as nom. (ll. cc.).)</span>