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Where does “terzino” come from?

terzino (Italian) comes from Italian terzo, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

terzino (Italian): full-back or quarterback; a unit of measure...

Definitions

  1. full-back or quarterback; a unit of measure...

Ancestry of “terzino”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianterzothird; uninvolved, neutral, third-party; others
2Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
3Latintrēs—
4Proto-Italictrēsthree
5Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “terzino”

  • centroterzino
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