The story
- Latin · derived fromtrēs“three”
- English todaytre-
From a form of Latin trēs (“three”) used in trēdecim (“thirteen”).
Words from the same roots
Latintrēs all →
trime
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tre-
Today it means: Used for forming names of large numbers as the third in the sequence in the Conway–Guy system. Full definition →
Latin trēs