Where does “tiers” come from?
tiers (French) comes from Old French tiers, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
tiers (French): third; third-party; a third
Definitions
- third; third-party; a third
Ancestry of “tiers”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | tiers | third |
| 2 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 3 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |
Words derived from “tiers”