terço

See also: terco

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

	30[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: três     Ordinal: terceiro     Ordinal abbreviation: 3.º     Multiplier: triplo, tríplice     Fractional: terço     Group: trio, trinca, terceto, tríade
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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese terço, from Latin tertius (“third”), from trēs (“three”), from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈteʁ.su/ [ˈteh.su]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈteʁ.su/ [ˈteh.su]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈteɾ.su/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈteʁ.su/ [ˈteχ.su]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈteɻ.so/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈteɾ.su/

• Hyphenation: ter‧ço
• Homophone: terso

Noun

terço m (plural terços)

1. (fractional number) third (one of three parts of a whole)
2. (Roman Catholicism) prayer beads used to pray; the rosary

   Synonym: rosário

3. (historical, military) tercio (a type of military formation used in the early modern age)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:terço.

Adjective

terço (feminine terça, masculine plural terços, feminine plural terças, not comparable)

1. which is one third (1/3) of something

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:terço.

Adjective

terço (feminine terça, masculine plural terços, feminine plural terças)

1. (archaic) third

   Synonyms: terceiro, tércio

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:terço.

Derived terms

• terça-feira

Related terms

• terceiro
• tércio
• três