Where does “terzista” come from?

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

terzista (Italian): subcontractor

Definitions

  1. subcontractor

Ancestry of “terzista”, step by step

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