tres

trēs (trīs) tria, gen.trium, acc.trēs or trīs, adj.num.

cf. Gr. τρεῖς; 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 .