Where does “Terz” come from?

Terz (German) comes from Italian terza, from Old Portuguese terça, from Latin tertia, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Terz (German): An interval of 3 or 4 halftones

Definitions

  1. An interval of 3 or 4 halftones

Ancestry of “Terz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianterzafeminine singular of terzo; third
2Old Portugueseterça—
3Latintertianominative feminine singular of tertius;...
4Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
5Latintrēsthree; 3
6Proto-Italictrēsthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “Terz”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →