Timeline for Is there a similar word to 'twain' but meaning 'three' instead of 'two'?
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| Mar 16 at 13:21 | comment | added | Stuart F | Triplicate? There are lots of words for three of something, although Caesar's "divisa in partes tres" is usually translated as "divided into three parts". | |
| Mar 16 at 10:57 | comment | added | TimR | You're going to have to make up a new word, to "threave". Beasts on your planet can have throven hooves. | |
| Mar 16 at 6:04 | answer | added | Payne | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 0:56 | answer | added | Bread | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 0:30 | answer | added | Lisa Kuehl | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 23, 2017 at 21:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/944674784448827392 | ||
| Sep 16, 2016 at 17:32 | history | edited | Conrad Irwin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Sep 11, 2016 at 4:13 | history | suggested | Dinesh Kumar Garg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2016 at 0:44 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @TonyK - What about a Ford Trimotor aeropwain? | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 22:38 | comment | added | TonyK | Sadly, "twain" has no three-way equivalent in English. | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | Hot Licks | There's also "trio" and "troika", though those can't generally be used in the same sense as "twain". | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 2:26 | comment | added | ottodidakt | Cleave in trio. | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 2:21 | answer | added | kev | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 22:26 | answer | added | L.Jx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 21:08 | answer | added | Mark Beadles | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 17:32 | vote | accept | Conrad Irwin | ||
| Jan 13, 2012 at 16:43 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 15:43 | comment | added | Josh Darnell | I think it's spelled "train"... :P | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 12:58 | answer | added | cormullion | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 12:26 | answer | added | Tim Lymington | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 9:42 | comment | added | Gangnus | What meaning? BTW, M.T. was the first man to prove the existence of god(s). | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 9:00 | answer | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 8:52 | comment | added | speedyGonzales | After reading the contemporary meaning of twain I couldn't look at Mark Twain the same way. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 8:29 | answer | added | David Schwartz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 8:15 | history | asked | Conrad Irwin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |