Where does “ters” come from?
ters (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from German Terz, 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.
ters (Norwegian Bokmål): a third
Ancestry of “ters”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | Terz | An interval of 3 or 4 halftones |
| 2 | Italian | terza | feminine singular of terzo; third |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | terça | — |
| 4 | Latin | tertia | nominative feminine singular of tertius;... |
| 5 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 6 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |