Ancient Greek

Noun

τρῐᾰ́ς • ‎(triás) f ‎(genitive τρῐᾰ́δος); third declension

1. the number three
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 104.a

     ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως οὕτως πέφυκε καὶ ἡ τριὰς καὶ ἡ πεμπτὰς καὶ ὁ ἥμισυς τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ ἅπας

     Yet the number three and the number five and half the numbers in general are so constituted.

2. a group of three; triad
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Winds 49

     τελευτᾷ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τριάδι

3. (prosody) system of three strophes
   • Hephaestio, Collected Works 61.C
4. (Christianity) Trinity
   • 534 CE, Codex Justinianus 1.1.5.2

Inflection

Derived terms

• τριαδικός ‎(triadikós)
• τριαδίζω ‎(triadízō)
• τριάζω ‎(triázō)

Descendants

• English: triad

References

• τριάς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τριάς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «τριάς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • three idem, page 869.
  • triad idem, page 893.