Where does “tertiate” come from?
tertiate (Latin) comes from Latin tertio, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
tertiate (Latin): second-person plural present active imperative of...
Definitions
- second-person plural present active imperative of...
Ancestry of “tertiate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | tertio | I do for the third time, thrice; for the third... |
| 2 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 3 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |