Etymology of “Τρεῖς”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from Ancient Greek
Source language
Ancient Greek
Ancestry links
2
Descendants
6
Word Origin Summary
Τρεῖς is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.
Ancestry Chain
Descendants and Related Terms
- triceratops
English · derived from
- triceratopo
Esperanto · derived from
- Trilobita
Translingual · derived from
- τρεις
Greek · inherited from
- trilogi
Norwegian Bokmål · derived from
- trilogi
Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from
What You Can Explore
- 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
- 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
- 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
- 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root