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

Definitions

  1. terce

Ancestry of “tice”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old FrenchterceAlternative form of tiers
2Latintertianominative feminine singular of tertius;...
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 →