Where does “terță” come from?

terță (Romanian) comes 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.

terță (Romanian): third

Definitions

  1. third

Ancestry of “terță”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianterzafeminine singular of terzo; third
2Old Portugueseterça—
3Latintertianominative feminine singular of tertius;...
4Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
5Latintrēsthree; 3
6Proto-Italictrēsthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →