Where does “Tertiärsektor” come from?

Tertiärsektor (German) comes from German Tertiär, from French tertiaire, from Latin tertiārius, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Tertiärsektor (German): tertiary sector the segment of the economy that provides services to consumers and other businesses

Definitions

  1. tertiary sector the segment of the economy that provides services to consumers and other businesses

Ancestry of “Tertiärsektor”, step by step

Tertiärsektor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Tertiär

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanTertiärtertiary
2Frenchtertiairetertiary
3Latintertiāriuscontaining a third part
4Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
5Latintrēsthree; 3
6Proto-Italictrēsthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

via German Sektor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSektorsector
2LatinsectorOne who cuts or cuts off, cutter; A purchaser or...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →