tref

English

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh tref (“town”).

Alternative forms

• trev

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tref (plural trefs)

1. (historical) A hamlet in Britain in pre-Saxon times.

Etymology 2

See treyf.

Adjective

tref (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of treyf (“not kosher”).

Anagrams

• FRET, TERF, fret, reft, terf

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛf

Verb

tref

1. inflection of treffen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• erft, fret

Middle French

Etymology

Old French tref.

Noun

tref m (plural trefs)

1. tent, temporary hut or other similar building

References

• tref² on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Alternative forms

• trave, trev, treif

Etymology

Inherited from Latin trabs.

Noun

tref oblique singular, m (oblique plural tres, nominative singular tres, nominative plural tref)

1. beam
2. mast (on a watercraft)
3. tent, temporary hut or other similar building

Usage notes

• There is no consensus what the difference between paveillon, tente and tref is in Old French. There may be no difference, or the difference may vary according to the author.

Descendants

• Middle French: trave
  • French: travée
  • → Middle English: trave, trawe
    • English: trave
• Middle French: tref
• → Catalan: treu
• → Galician: treu
• → Spanish: treo

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Treff.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trêf/

Noun

trȅf m inan (Cyrillic spelling тре̏ф)

1. ♣, clubs in card- and boardgames

Declension

Declension of tref

	singular	plural
nominative	trȅf	trèfovi
genitive	trèfa	trèfovā
dative	trèfu	trèfovima
accusative	trȅf	trèfove
vocative	trȅfe	trèfovi
locative	trèfu	trèfovima
instrumental	trèfom	trèfovima

Coordinate terms

Suits in Serbo-Croatian · boje (layout · text)
herc, srce	karo, kocka	pik, list	tref, detelina

References

• “tref”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика [Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање [Second Phototype Edition], volume 6, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1976, published 1990, page 285
• “tref”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Welsh

Alternative forms

• tre
• trev (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Welsh tref, from Proto-Brythonic *treβ, from Proto-Celtic *trebā, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-, compare Cumbric *trev.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /treːv/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eːv, -eː

Noun

tref f (plural trefi or trefydd)

1. town
2. home

Derived terms

• adref
• cantref
• cartref
• cyngor tref
• gorfodtref
• pentref
• tref anghyfannedd
• Trefaldwyn
• trefgordd
• trefol
• trefolaeth
• trefolion

See also

• dinas
• llan

Mutation

Mutated forms of tref

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tref	dref	nhref	thref

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.