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Thret(t)y, Thret(t)ie, Thert(t)y, num. Also: thret(t)ye, thretti, thrette, threthi, threittie, thrity, thritie, thrytie, thritti(e, thrytty, thratty(e, thrat(t)ie, throttie, therti(e, therttie, therritie, thirtie, tretty, tratty(e. [ME and e.m.E. þrittiȝ (Orm), þritti (Layamon), þretty, thirtti, thritti, þritty (all Cursor M.), thretty (c1425), threty (Caxton), thirty (Tindale), OE þritiᵹ, ON þrítugr.]

A. adj. 1. The cardinal number thirty, qualifying a noun.(a) a1400 Leg. S. v 225.
A ȝounge man … that before thane Thretty dais had veddit bene c1420 Ratis R. 1155.
Quhen thretty ȝer ar passit by, Than cum thai to perfeccione 1437 Reg. Dunferm. 285.
And that it be thretti fut brad 1442 Aberd. B. Rec. I 8.
That this burgh sal be wachit ilke nyght with thretty men at the breste, als lang tyme as the cuntreth is in trubble a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 508.
Judas forthoucht, and restorit agane The thretty pennyis 1513 Doug. iii vi 72.
A gret sow ferryit of grysis thretty hed c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke iii 23.
Threttj 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 15.
The rectour most be ane … doctor or bachelar in the hyear faculteis [etc.] … of age abuve thretty ȝeris c1575 Balfour Pract. 272.
The schiref-officiar or serjand sall have for his fie ane colpindach, or threttie penies, for ilk ane condampnit in ane unlaw 1620 Edinb. Test. L 322b.
Tua aquavitie potis price of baith threttie pundis 1663 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 207.
Ilk burges of gild thrie scor punds, ilk tradsman thretie punds, and ilk person of the meiner sort ten punds(b) 1312 Facs. Nat. MSS II xix.
Vsque ad terminum triginta [glossed thritti] annorum 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 299.
Thair wes many of thrittie men mylnes that grand quheit, malt and aittis 1649 Kelso Glovers 10.
Under the paine of thrytie pound 1665 Forbes Baron Ct. 256.
The sowme of thritie poundes Scottis(c) 1540 (c1670) Fraser Polichron. 130.
His thratty penny land of Midganies lyand within the Isle of Sky 1569 Inverness Rec. I 178.
The sowme of thrattye bollis gude and sufficient eakin bark 1572 Inverness Rec. I 213.
Ane coffyr wyth xij thrattye schilling peces thairin 1632 Cullen B. Ct. 2 March.
Thrattie(d) 1549 Compl. 98/4.
The Samnetis, quhilkis hed maid mortal veyr thertty ȝeir to giddir [con]trar Rome 1654 Conv. Burghs III 390.
Thair counsall to consist of thertie persouns

b. As part of a larger (cardinal or ordinal) number. 1375 Barb. xi 237 (C).
Of fechtand men I trow thai ware Thretty thousand, and sum deill mare a1400 Leg. S. xxiii 179.
The threty-tyd ȝere ewinely Of Theod[o]sis seygnery ?1438 Alex. i 187.
Threttie c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2353.
The thre and thretty buke … feist 1434 Chart. Coupar A. II 33.
The yhere of oure lorde a thousand foure hunder thretti and foure 1436 Coll. Aberd. & B. 394.
Therti 1438 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 266.
Therty 1438 Ayr Friars Pr. Chart. 49.
Threty a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 736 (Asl.).
In myd age as thre & thretty ȝere 1516 Treas. Acc. V 87.
Thrette 1536 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 222.
Thrytty 1548 Boyd Fam. P. No. 26 (6 Aug.).
Of the sade trattye twa bollis of wittell 1548 Boyd Fam. P. No. 27 (6 Aug.).
To pay ȝerlye to the sade Elezabeth Crawfurd tratty twa bollis of wittell be ȝer c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3032.
Fute men threttye hundreth thousand 1559 Aberd. B. Rec. I 320.
Tuo pair of censuris of tretty aucht wnce a1605 Montg. Flyt. 411 (H).
And quhill their thryse threttie knottis on this blew threid byd 1612 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 327.
Throttie 1627 Brechin Test. IV 291.
Threittie ane dun coidis 1653 Laing MSS 275.
He thinks mor of being toucht on halff hour off God than of all his threthi seven yeares studeis at colidges & books 1658 Conv. Burghs III 468.
Therty thousand pund sterling 1672 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 22 Nov.
Thratie 1677 Rothesay B. Rec. 349.
Thrity 1681 Irvine Mun. II 284.
Therritie and tuo pound and seven shiling and ten penies Scotes 1694 Lett. (Annandale Papers, R. C. Reid transcript).
Therttie

2. Put for the ordinal number: Thirtieth. = Threttieth num. and adj. a and b.a. 1522 Melville Chart. 62.
The threty day of August a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 18.
Christell Seytoun … deit in the thretye yeir of Allexander the Thrydb. 1644 Sc. N. & Q. 1 Ser. XII 60.
Our minister this day returned from Ingland when text was upon the 15 v. of the thirtie of Jerimia 1666 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 231.
Ane day of thanksgiving to be keepit thorrowout this kingdome wpon the thrittie of this instant 1678 Stirlings of Keir 514.
To … be att Perth the threttie of this instant

B. absol. and ellipt., passing into noun. 1375 Barb. iv 405 (C).
Soyn fra the batis saw thai ga Of Ynglis men thretty and ma 1375 Barb. ix 640 (C).
Ay for ane thai var thretty c1420 Wynt. iii 161.
Than to that thretty at the mete … He sayd [etc.] c1420 Wynt. vii 2821.
A thowsand twa hundyr and thretty gane And to tha yhit reknyt ane c1420 Ratis R. 1275.
The ferd eild … Fra xv ȝer … It lestis weill til ful thretty a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 247.
The roy rekinnit on raw Thretty and thre a1500 Rauf C. 694.
He thristit in throw threttie all atanis 1578 Bk. Carlaverock II 484.
Twentie or threttie at the monyest 1661 Acts VII 252/2.
Lambs ilk thirtie, tuo ounces [bullion] 1684 S. Ronaldshay 65.
The moderator answered that if ten, twentie or thertie were qualified, it ought not to be omitted

b. comb. With sum, see Sum(e pron. 10.