Where does “tercio” come from?

tercio (Spanish) comes from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tercio (Spanish): third; third, one of three equal parts; tercio

Definitions

  1. third; third, one of three equal parts; tercio

Ancestry of “tercio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
2Latintrēsthree; 3
3Proto-Italictrēsthree
4Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “tercio”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →