terça-feira

See also: terça feira

Mirandese

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin tertia fēria (“Tuesday”, literally “third weekday”).

Noun

terça-feira f (plural terças-feiras)

1. Tuesday (day of the week)

See also

• days of the week (appendix): demingo~deimingo · segunda · terça~tércia · quarta · quinta · sesta · sábado ^[edit]

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese terça feira (“Tuesday”), from Ecclesiastical Latin tertia fēria (“Tuesday”, literally “third weekday”); displaced earlier martes. Related to Galician terza feira and Mirandese terça-feira.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌteʁ.sɐˈfe(j).ɾɐ/ [ˌteh.sɐˈfe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌteʁ.sɐˈfe(j).ɾɐ/ [ˌteh.sɐˈfe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌteɾ.sɐˈfe(j).ɾɐ/ [ˌteɾ.sɐˈfe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌteʁ.sɐˈfe(j).ɾɐ/ [ˌteχ.sɐˈfe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˌteɻ.sɐˈfe(j).ɾɐ/ [ˌteɻ.sɐˈfe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌteʁ.saˈfe(j).ɾa/ [ˌteh.saˈfe(ɪ̯).ɾa]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteɾ.sɐˈfɐj.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteɾ.sɐˈfɐj.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteɾ.sɐˈfej.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteɾ.sɐˈfej.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteɾ.sɐˈfe.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: ter‧ça‧-fei‧ra

Noun

terça-feira f (plural terças-feiras)

2. Tuesday (third day of the week)

   Synonym: terça

Descendants

• ⇒ Tetum: loron-tersa

Adverb

terça-feira (not comparable)

2. Tuesday (on a Tuesday)

   Synonym: terça

See also

• days of the week (appendix): dias da semana · domingo · segunda-feira · terça-feira · quarta-feira · quinta-feira · sexta-feira · sábado ^[edit]

Further reading

• “terça-feira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “terça-feira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026