terce

See also: tercé

English

Alternative forms

• tierce

Etymology

From Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

Noun

terce (countable and uncountable, plural terces)

1. (historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
2. (chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.
3. (Scotland, law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

Synonyms

• (hour): undern, half undern, undermeal, underntide, undertide (obsolete)
• (service): undern-song (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• (both senses): canonical hour
• (service): liturgy of the hours

Translations

third hour of daylight

• Dutch: terts (nl) m or f
• French: tierce (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Old English: undern m, undernmæl, underntid, underntima
• Walloon: tice (wa) m

Christian service during this hour

• Dutch: terts (nl) m or f
• French: tierce (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Old English: undernsang, underntid
• Walloon: tice (wa) m

Anagrams

• -crete, Crete, erect, recte

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French

Verb

terce

1. first-person singular present indicative of tercer
2. third-person singular present indicative of tercer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tercer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tercer
5. second-person singular imperative of tercer

Anagrams

• crête

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Middle English

Noun

terce

1. Alternative form of ters

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Old French

Adjective

terce m (oblique and nominative feminine singular terce)

1. Alternative form of tiers