Where does “terț” come from?
terț (Romanian) comes from Italian terzo, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
terț (Romanian): third; third person; third party
Definitions
- third; third person; third party
Ancestry of “terț”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | terzo | third; uninvolved, neutral, third-party; others |
| 2 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 3 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |