Where does “tercio” come from?
tercio (English) comes from Spanish tercio, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
tercio (English): Any of the three stages of a bullfight: the vara,...
Definitions
- Any of the three stages of a bullfight: the vara,...
Ancestry of “tercio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | tercio | third; third, one of three equal parts; tercio |
| 2 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 3 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |