Where does “ternaire” come from?

ternaire (French) comes from Latin ternarius, from Latin terni, from Latin ter, from Latin terr, from Old Latin tris, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

ternaire (French): ternary

Definitions

  1. ternary

Ancestry of “ternaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinternariusContaining or consisting of three things; ternary
2Latinternithree each; three at a time
3Latinterthrice
4Latinterr
5Old Latintris
6Proto-Italictrēsthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes

Words derived from “ternaire

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes