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TRE (tray)
Three in Italian
Common clues: Three, in Turin; Caterina’s “three”; Uno y due; Naples number; Luigi’s three
Crossword puzzle frequency: once a year
Frequency in English language: 55677 / 86800
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Three
is often the largest number written with as many lines as the
number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but to
this day 3 is written as three lines in Roman and Chinese
numerals. This was the way the Brahmin Indians wrote it, and the
Gupta made the three lines more curved. The Nagari started
rotating the lines clockwise and ending each line with a slight
downward stroke on the right. Eventually they made these strokes
connect with the lines below, and evolved it to a character that
looks very much like a modern 3 with an extra stroke at the
bottom. It was the Western Ghubar Arabs who finally eliminated the
extra stroke and created our modern 3.
Counting to ten in Italian:
0 zero
1 uno
2 due
3 tre
4 quattro
5 cinque
6 sei
7 sette
8 otto
9 nove
10 dieci
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