Where does “tice” come from?
tice (Walloon) comes from Old French terce, from Latin tertia, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
tice (Walloon): terce
Ancestry of “tice”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | terce | Alternative form of tiers |
| 2 | Latin | tertia | nominative feminine singular of tertius;... |
| 3 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 4 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |