trio

PIE word
*tréyes

1715-25; borrowing from Italian trio.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹi.əʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹioʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːəʊ

English numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: three     Ordinal: third     Abbreviated ordinal: 3rd     Latinate ordinal: tertiary     Reverse order ordinal: third to last     Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate     Adverbial: three times, thrice     Multiplier: threefold     Latinate multiplier: triple     Distributive: triply     Germanic collective: trio, threesome     Collective of n parts: triplet     Greek or Latinate collective: triad     Greek collective prefix: tri-     Latinate collective prefix: tri-     Fractional: third     Elemental: triplet     Greek prefix: trito-     Number of musicians: trio, triplet     Number of years: triennium

trio (plural trios)

1. A group of three people or things.
   • 2015, Kate Hardy, Bachelor at Her Bidding:

     I'm cooking crab cakes with arugula and mayonnaise, griddled lamb with rosemary potatoes and buttered spinach, then a trio of desserts.

   • 2017 June 11, Ben Fisher, “England seal Under-20 World Cup glory as Dominic Calvert-Lewin strikes”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     These are exciting times for England and particularly for this group. Six of this side won the Under-17s European Championship in 2014 and the attacking trio from Everton and Liverpool – Ademola Lookman, Dominic Solanke and Calvert-Lewin – had an excellent tournament.

3. A group of three musicians.
4. (music) A piece of music written for three musicians.
   • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 281:

     I love his music, but it is a bit disconcerting to realize that you could die in extreme old age and still only be familiar with a mere handful of the baryton trios.

5. (music) A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
6. Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.

• (group of three): threesome, triad, trine, trinity, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio

• solo - 1
• duo - 2
• triplet - 3
• quartet - 4
• quintet - 5
• sextet - 6
• Thesaurus:number

• Tori, Troi, riot, roti, tiro, tori

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾi.u]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾi.o]

Borrowed from Italian trio.

trio m (plural trios)

1. (music) trio (a piece of music written for three musicians)
2. (music) trio (a group of three musicians)
3. threesome (an instance of sexual activity involving three people)

trio

1. first-person singular present indicative of triar

• “trio”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trio”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “trio” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trio” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Italian trio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.oː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: trio

trio n (plural trio's, diminutive triootje n)

1. trio, threesome, triad (group of three people or things)

   Synonym: drietal

   De Duitse band Trio was een trio.

   The German band Trio was a triumvirate.

2. menage a trois, threesome (sex act, three people having sex together)

   De Duitse band Trio was geen trio.

   The German band Trio was not a menage a trois.

• cabarettrio

tri (“three”) +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrio/

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: tri‧o

trio (accusative singular trion, plural trioj, accusative plural triojn)

1. threesome, trio

   Synonym: triopo

2. the digit or figure three

Playing cards in Esperanto · ludkartoj (layout · text)
aso	duo	trio	kvaro	kvino	seso	sepo
oko	naŭo	deko	fanto, bubo	damo	reĝo	ĵokero

From Italian trio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrio/, [ˈt̪rio̞]
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification^(key): tri‧o
• Hyphenation^(key): trio

trio

1. trio

• “trio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• irto-, orit, roti, tori

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.jo/

Borrowing from Italian trio

trio m (plural trios)

1. trio

trio m (uncountable)

1. Tiriyó (language)

• “trio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: trì‧o

trio m (plural trii)

1. trio, threesome
2. (music) trio
3. (baby carriage system) travel system

• terzetto
• tripletta
• triade

• tre

baby carriage

• carrozzina
• passeggino

• Tiro, irto, orti, otri, rito, roti, tiro, tirò, tori

From Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtri.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪riː.o]

triō m (genitive triōnis); third declension

1. a plow ox
2. (chiefly in the plural) the constellation of the Wagon (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor)

   Synonym: septentriōnēs

Third-declension noun.

• septentriō

Borrowed from English trio, French trio.

trio m (plural trios)

1. (Jersey) trio

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

trio

1. trio

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Borrowed from Italian trio.

trio m (definite singular trioen, indefinite plural trioer, definite plural trioene)

1. trio (group of three musicians; piece of music for three instruments; group of three people)

• “trio” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian trio.

trio m (definite singular trioen, indefinite plural trioar, definite plural trioane)

1. trio (group of three musicians; piece of music for three instruments)

• “trio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian trio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.jɔ/, /ˈtrɘ.jɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ijɔ, -ɘjɔ
• Syllabification: tri‧o

trio n

1. (music) trio (group of three musicians)

   Synonym: tercet

2. (music) trio (piece of music written for three musicians)

   Synonym: tercet

3. trio (group of three people or things)

   Synonym: tercet

• trio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trio in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -iu

Borrowed from Italian trio.

trio m (plural trios)

1. trio (group of three people or things)

   Synonyms: trinca, terceto, tríade

Coeficiente	Substantivo	Resultado
1	único singular
2	dobro	dupla par dueto
3	triplo	trio trinca terceto tríade
4	quádruplo	quarteto
5	quíntuplo	quinteto
6	sêxtuplo	sexteto
7	sétuplo séptuplo	septeto
8	óctuplo	octeto
9	nônuplo (Brazil) nónuplo (Portugal)	noneto/novena
10	décuplo	dezena
11	undécuplo	onzena/onzeno
12	duodécuplo	dúzia
100	cêntuplo	centena
muitos	múltiplo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

trio

1. first-person singular present indicative of triar

• “trio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “trio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Italian trio or French trio.

trio n (plural triouri)

1. trio

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

trio

1. trio

Inflection of trio (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	trio
genitive sing.	trion
partitive sing.	triod
partitive plur.	trioid
	singular	plural
nominative	trio	triod
accusative	trion	triod
genitive	trion	trioiden
partitive	triod	trioid
essive-instructive	trion	trioin
translative	trioks	trioikš
inessive	trios	trioiš
elative	triospäi	trioišpäi
illative	trioho	trioihe
adessive	triol	trioil
ablative	triolpäi	trioilpäi
allative	triole	trioile
abessive	triota	trioita
comitative	trionke	trioidenke
prolative	triodme	trioidme
approximative I	trionno	trioidenno
approximative II	trionnoks	trioidennoks
egressive	trionnopäi	trioidennopäi
terminative I	triohosai	trioihesai
terminative II	triolesai	trioilesai
terminative III	triossai	—
additive I	triohopäi	trioihepäi
additive II	triolepäi	trioilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “трио”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Borrowed from English try.

trio (first-person singular present triaf)

1. to try

   Synonym: ceisio