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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<b>τρεῖς, τρία<\/b>, <i>gén<\/i>. <b>τριῶν<\/b>, <i>dat<\/i>. <b>τρισί<\/b>, <i>acc. c. le nom., n. de nombre<\/i> trois, HOM. ATT. <i>etc. ; prov<\/i>. <font color='blue'>τρία ἔπεα<\/font>, PD. <i>N. 7, 48,<\/i> trois paroles, <i>càd<\/i>. des paroles de bon augure (<i>le nombre trois étant considéré comme favorable<\/i>).<p style='color:darkgreen'>➳ <i>Dat<\/i>. τριοῖσι, HIPPON. <i>fr. 51. Éol<\/i>. τρῆς, GRAMM.<\/p><p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. <i>indo-europ<\/i>. *trei-es, trois ; <i>cf. lat<\/i>. trēs, tria ; <i>sscr<\/i>. tráyaḥ.<\/p>"
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                    "reference": "Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)",
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                    "description": "οἱ, αἱ, τρία τά ; gen. τριῶν ; dat. τρισί, also τριοῖσι Hippon. 51, and τρίεσσι <i>Delph.<\/i>3(5).80.21 (iv BC); <i>Aeol.<\/i> τρίσσι <i>Inscr.Perg.<\/i> 245 B 18 (Pitana); acc. τρεῖς (written τρες IG1². 24.16, 44.15, 188.37, 1085, al.), τρία ; Dor. nom. τρέες <i>Leg. Gort.<\/i> 9.48; τρῆς IG 12(3).1640 (Thera); τρῖς SIG 236 A 10 (Delph., iv BC), <i>Tab.Heracl.<\/i> 1.23; acc. τρίινς <i>Leg. Gort.<\/i> 5.54, al. (for τρίνς, lengthd. to correspond with the other cases); τρῖς IG1². 838, 839 (vi BC), SIG 239 D ii 28 (Delph., iv BC), <i>Berl.Sitzb.<\/i> 1927.158 (Cyrene) : — <b>three<\/b>, <i>Il.<\/i> 15.187, etc. ; <b>τρία ἔπεα three words, <i>prov.<\/i><\/b> in Pi. <i>N.<\/i> 7.48, — for from the earliest times <b>three<\/b> was a sacred and lucky number, esp. with the Pythagoreans (cf. τριάς), Arist. <i>Cael.<\/i> 268a11; so τῶν τριῶν μίαν λαβεῖν εὔσοιαν S. <i>Fr.<\/i> 122; εἰ καὶ τῶν τριῶν ἓν οἴσομαι <i>ib.<\/i> 908; cf. σωτήρ 1.2; — διὰ τριῶν ἀπόλλυμαι I am <b>thrice<\/b>, i.e.<br\/><b>utterly<\/b>, undone, E. <i>Or.<\/i> 434 (cf. τριάζω)· ἡ διὰ τριῶν ἀγωγή the ΄trivium΄, Simp. <i>in Ph.<\/i> 1171.34; ἵνα δήσῃ τρία τρία <b>by threes<\/b>, POxy. 121.19 (iii AD). (I.-E. stem <i>trĭ-<\/i>, fuller form <i>trey-<\/i>, nom. <i>tréy-es<\/i> (Skt. <i>tráyas<\/i>, Lat. <b>tres<\/b>), whence τρέες, <i>contr.<\/i> τρῆς and τρεῖς (written τρες IG1². 295.11); acc. <i>tri-ns<\/i> (Goth. <i>þrins<\/i>, Skt. <i>trī΄n<\/i>), whence τρῖς and τρίινς· in Gr. the nom. τρεῖς functions as acc. (as in Att.), or the acc. τρῖς as nom. (<i>ll. cc.<\/i>).)"
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                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
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                    "description": "οἱ, αἱ, τρία, τά, gen. τριῶν, dat. τρισί, Hippon. frg. 8 auch τριοῖσι, – <i>drei<\/i>, Hom. u. Folgde. Die Drei galt von jeher als eine heilige, glückbringende Zahl, τρία ἔπεα Pind. <i>N<\/i>. 7.48, u. so oft."
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