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Where does “tertiair” come from?

tertiair (Dutch) comes from French tertiaire, from Latin tertiārius, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tertiair (Dutch): tertiary

Definitions

  1. tertiary

Ancestry of “tertiair”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtertiairetertiary
2Latintertiārius—
3Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
4Latintrēs—
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
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