threeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• thre, þree, threy, thrie (all obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 thre, threo, thrie, thri, from 古期英語 þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey.

Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treís), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: thrē IPA: /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [θɾ̪̊ɪi], [θɹ̥ɪi]
• (英国発音, th-fronting) enPR: frē IPA: /fɹiː/
• (Ireland) IPA: /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [t̪ɾ̪̊iː]
• (General American) enPR: thrē IPA: /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊i], [θɹ̥i], [θɹi]
• 異形同音異義語: tree (th-stopping); free (th-fronting)
• 韻: -iː

数詞

three

1. A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

   • 1995, Nancy Berliner, Sarah Handler, Friends of the House‎, →ISBN, page 79:

     There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.

   • 2003 April 7, Michelle Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:

     Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two…
     Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”?
     Three! Who said anything about “go”?

   • 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv‎, page 2‎:

     Now we continue zooming-in in three different directions depending on the number of ones.

   • 2011 October 18, Paul Dini, Paul Crocker, Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios:

     Why should she care? One…two…
     Do we shoot on three?
     Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.

   • 2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN‎:

     The beetles are named Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres and Binburrum zapdos after three rare Pokémon: Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.

2. Describing a set or group with three elements.

同意語

• (numerical value): leash, tether (dialectal)

関連する語

• third, thrice, triple

参考

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

名詞

three (plural threes)

1. The digit/figure 3.
   • 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv‎, page 1‎:

     In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes.

2. Anything measuring three units, as length.

   Put all the threes in a separate container.

3. A person who is three years old.

   All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.

4. The playing card featuring three pips.
5. Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.

6. (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• Ehret, Ether, Reeth, ether, rethe, theer, there