tercer

Catalan

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

	30[a], [b]
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Cardinal: tres     Ordinal: tercer     Ordinal abbreviation: 3r     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: terç
Catalan Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology

From Latin tertiarius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tərˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [teɾˈseɾ]

• Audio:

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Adjective

tercer (feminine tercera, masculine plural tercers, feminine plural terceres)

1. (ordinal number) third

Noun

tercer m (plural tercers, feminine tercera)

1. mediator (a third party who negotiates between two other parties in a dispute)
2. (obsolete) tierce; unit of liquid measure

Further reading

• “tercer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tercer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tercer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tercer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Alternative forms

• terser
• tiercer

Etymology

From Old French terce, alternative form of tiers (“third”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.se/

• Audio:

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Verb

tercer

1. (transitive) to plough a third time

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of tercer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tercer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	terçant /tɛʁ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tercé /tɛʁ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	terce /tɛʁs/	terces /tɛʁs/	terce /tɛʁs/	terçons /tɛʁ.sɔ̃/	tercez /tɛʁ.se/	tercent /tɛʁs/
	imperfect	terçais /tɛʁ.sɛ/	terçais /tɛʁ.sɛ/	terçait /tɛʁ.sɛ/	tercions /tɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	terciez /tɛʁ.sje/	terçaient /tɛʁ.sɛ/
	past historic2	terçai /tɛʁ.se/	terças /tɛʁ.sa/	terça /tɛʁ.sa/	terçâmes /tɛʁ.sam/	terçâtes /tɛʁ.sat/	tercèrent /tɛʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	tercerai /tɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	terceras /tɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	tercera /tɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	tercerons /tɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	tercerez /tɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	terceront /tɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tercerais /tɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	tercerais /tɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	tercerait /tɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	tercerions /tɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	terceriez /tɛʁ.sə.ʁje/	terceraient /tɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	terce /tɛʁs/	terces /tɛʁs/	terce /tɛʁs/	tercions /tɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	terciez /tɛʁ.sje/	tercent /tɛʁs/
	imperfect2	terçasse /tɛʁ.sas/	terçasses /tɛʁ.sas/	terçât /tɛʁ.sa/	terçassions /tɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	terçassiez /tɛʁ.sa.sje/	terçassent /tɛʁ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	terce /tɛʁs/	—	terçons /tɛʁ.sɔ̃/	tercez /tɛʁ.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

	3
Cardinal: tres     Ordinal: tercero     Apocopated ordinal: tercer     Ordinal abbreviation: 3.º     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: tercio
Spanish Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology

See tercero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /teɾˈθeɾ/ [t̪eɾˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /teɾˈseɾ/ [t̪eɾˈseɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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Adjective

tercer m (apocopate, standard form tercero)

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of tercero (“third”)

   el tercer hijo ― the third child

Usage notes

• The form tercer is only used before and within the noun phrase of a modified masculine singular noun. In other positions, the standard form tercero is used instead.

Further reading

• “tercer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014