Where does “tersera” come from?

tersera (Tagalog) comes from Spanish tercera, from Latin tertiārius, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tersera (Tagalog): third gear

Definitions

  1. third gear

Ancestry of “tersera”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishtercerafeminine singular of tercero; a third
2Latintertiāriuscontaining a third part
3Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
4Latintrēsthree; 3
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →