τρίʼ (tri)

τρίʼ is an Ancient Greek form of τρεῖς, meaning “three”. It is the numeral.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.7.43: … όπον· καὶ τίς ἔφυ σοφὸς ὧδε, τίς ἔργον ἔρεξε τοσοῦτον ὅσσον ὁ παντοδαὴς ἤνυσε Δημόκριτος; ὃς Θάνατον παρεόντα τρίʼ ἤματα δώμασιν ἔσχεν καὶ θερμοῖς ἄρτων ἄσθμασιν ἐξένισεν. τοιοῦτος μὲν ὁ βίος τἀνδρός.

Euripides, The Trojan Women 559: τρὶ χεῖρας ἐπτοημένας·

Aristophanes, Peace 1153: ὧν ἔνεγκʼ ὦ παῖ τρἴ ἡμῖν, ἓν δὲ δοῦναι τῷ πατρί·

All forms of τρεῖς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.