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tre
Latin · ancient
"three"
three, the root of any group of three
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trio
Italian · 1700s
"a group of three musicians"
adopted into Italian musical vocabulary for a group of three performers
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trio
English · 1720s
"a group of three people or things"
settled as the English word for any group of three
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