🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

tres veces

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tres 베세스

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ter/tɜːr/
adverbprefixCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #18500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Tome el medicamento tres veces al día."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adverb
  1. 1

    Three times; used chiefly in medical prescriptions and musical notation to indicate that an action should be performed thrice.

    "The pharmacist noted the instruction to take the medication ter daily."
As prefix
  1. 1

    Forming compound terms indicating three parts, thrice occurrence, or tertiary chemical structures.

    "The compound exhibits complex bonding characteristic of ter-derivatives."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Latin ter, meaning 'three times', coming from the Proto-Indo-European root *tris. It entered English primarily through musical and pharmacological terminology, retaining its classical adverbial function of indicating repetition or multiplicity.

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