Where does “tertiarization” come from?

tertiarization (English) comes from English Tertiary, from Latin tertiārius, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tertiarization (English): A shift from the primary and secondary sectors to...

Definitions

  1. A shift from the primary and secondary sectors to...

Ancestry of “tertiarization”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishTertiaryOf or pertaining to the first part of the...
2Latintertiāriuscontaining a third part
3Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
4Latintrēsthree; 3
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →