trēs (trīs) tria, gen. trium, acc. trēs or trīs, adj. num. cf. Gr. trei=s

— Engl. three, three: trīs legatos deligere: horum trium generum quodvis: tria non commutabitis Verba inter vos, not three words, i. e. nothing, T.: ego tribus primis verbis (dixi), at the first three words.