third

English

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	30
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: three     Ordinal: third, trito-     Latinate ordinal: tertiary     Adverbial: three times, thrice     Multiplier: triple, threefold     Distributive: triply     Collective: triad, threesome     Fractional: third     Number of musicians: trio, triplet

Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: thûd, IPA^(key): /θɜːd/
• (US) enPR: thûrd, IPA^(key): /θɝd/

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• (NYC) IPA^(key): /t̪ɔɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d

Adjective

third (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

   The third tree from the left is my favorite.

   • 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry‎^[1], UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:

     The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie […]

Synonyms

• 3rd, 3d, IIIrd, III

Derived terms

• thirdness
• third-wave coffee
• third-wave feminism

Translations

the ordinal form of the cardinal number three — See also translations at 3rd

• Afrikaans: derde (af)
• Albanian: tretë (sq)
• Arabic: ثَالِث‎ m (ṯāliṯ), ثَالِثَة‎ f (ṯāliṯa)

  Egyptian Arabic: تالت‎ m (tālit)

• Armenian: երրորդ (hy) (errord)
• Aromanian: antreilu
• Assamese: তৃতীয় (tritio)
• Asturian: terceru (ast)
• Azerbaijani: üçüncü
• Bashkir: өсөнсө (ösönsö)
• Basque: hirugarren (eu)
• Belarusian: трэ́ці m (tréci)
• Bengali: তৃতীয় (tritiẏ), তেসরা (teśra)
• Breton: trede (br) m or f, teirvet (br) f, trivet (br) m
• Bulgarian: тре́ти m (tréti)
• Burmese: တတိယ (my) (ta.ti.ya.)
• Buryat: гурбадахи (gurbadaxi)
• Catalan: tercer (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第三 (zh) (dìsān)

• Chuukese: aunungatin
• Chuvash: виҫҫӗмӗш (viśśĕmĕš)
• Classical Nahuatl: ic ēyi
• Crimean Tatar: üçünci
• Czech: třetí (cs)
• Danish: tredje (da)
• Dolgan: үһүс (ühüs)
• Dutch: derde (nl)
• Esperanto: tria (eo)
• Estonian: kolmas (et)
• Evenki: илӣ (ilī)
• Finnish: kolmas (fi)
• French: troisième (fr) m or f, trois (fr) m or f (in names of monarchs and popes; after the name; abbreviation III)
• Gagauz: üçüncü
• Galician: terceiro (gl)
• Georgian: მესამე (mesame)
• German: dritte (de)
• Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰 (þridja)
• Greek: τρίτος (el) (trítos)

  Ancient: τρίτος (trítos)

• Hawaiian: kolu
• Hebrew: שלישי‎ (shelîyshîy)
• Hindi: तीसरा (hi) (tīsrā), तृतीय (hi) (tŕtīya), तीजा (hi) (tījā)
• Hungarian: harmadik (hu)
• Icelandic: þriðji m, þriðja f or n
• Ido: triesma (io)
• Indonesian: ketiga (id)
• Ingrian: kolmas
• Interlingua: tertie
• Irish: tríú (ga)
• Italian: terzo (it) m, terza (it) f, terzo (it) m (in names of monarchs and popes), terza (it) f (after the name; abbreviation III)
• Japanese: 三番目 (さんばんめ, sanban-me), 三つ目 (mittsume)
• Kalmyk: һурвдгч (hurvdgç)
• Kazakh: үшінші (üşinşi)
• Khakas: ӱзінӌі (üzìncì)
• Khmer: ទីបី (tii bəy)
• Korean: 셋째 (ko) (setjjae)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سێیەم‎ (sêyem)

• Kyrgyz: үчүнчү (ky) (üçünçü)
• Lao: ທີ່ສາມ (thī sām)
• Latgalian: trešs m, treša f, trešais m, trešuo f
• Latin: tertius (la)
• Latvian: trešais m, trešā f

• Lithuanian: trečias (lt) m, trečia f
• Lombard: terz
• Luxembourgish: drëtt (lb)
• Macedonian: тре́ти m (tréti), трет m (tret)
• Malay: ketiga (ms)
• Malayalam: മൂന്നാം (ml) (mūnnāṃ)
• Maltese: it-tilet
• Manchu: (ilaci)
• Manx: treeoo
• Maori: tuatoru, te toru
• Middle English: thridde
• Mongolian: гуравдугаар (mn) (guravdugaar), гуравдахь (guravdakhi)
• Navajo: tááʼ góneʼ
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: traad

  Helgoland: dör

  Sylt: treer

• Northern Sami: goalmmát
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: tredje (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: tredje (no), tridje

• Occitan: tresen (oc), tèrç (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: трєти (treti)
• Old English: þridda
• Old Frisian: thredda
• Old Prussian: tīrts
• Old Turkic: 𐰇𐰲𐰨‎ (üčnč /üčünč/)
• Ottoman Turkish: اوچنجی‎ (üçüncü)
• Pennsylvania German: dritt
• Persian: سوم‎ (fa) (sevvom)
• Plautdietsch: dredda
• Polish: trzeci (pl)
• Portuguese: terceiro (pt) m, terceira (pt) f, (rarely) terço (pt) m, terça (pt) f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} al treilea (ro) m or n , ^{(please verify)} a treia f
• Russian: тре́тий (ru) (trétij)
• Rusyn: тре́тый (trétŷj)
• Sanskrit: तृतीय (sa) (tṛtīya)
• Scots: third
• Scottish Gaelic: treas, trìtheamh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тре̏ћӣ

  Roman: trȅćī (sh)

• Shor: ӱжӱнчи
• Sinhalese: තුන්‍වැනි (tunwæni)
• Slovak: tretí (sk)
• Slovene: tretji (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tśeśi

  Upper Sorbian: třeći

• Southern Altai: ӱчинчи (üčinči)
• Spanish: tercero (es)
• Swahili: ya tatu
• Swedish: tredje (sv)
• Tagalog: ikatlo
• Tajik: сеюм (tg) (seyum)
• Tatar: өченче (öçençe)
• Telugu: మూడో (mūḍō)
• Thai: ที่สาม (tîi-sǎam)
• Tocharian B: trite
• Turkish: üçüncü (tr)
• Turkmen: üçünji
• Ukrainian: тре́тій (uk) (trétij)
• Urdu: تیسرا‎ m (tīsrā), سِوَم‎ (sivam)
• Uyghur: ئۈچىنچى‎ (üchinchi)
• Uzbek: uchinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ ba (vi)
• Volapük: kilid (vo)
• Votic: kõlmõz
• Welsh: trydydd (cy) m, trydedd f
• West Frisian: tredde (fy)
• Yakut: үһүс (ühüs)
• Yiddish: דריט‎ (drit)
• Yoruba: ẹkẹta

Noun

third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)

1. The person or thing in the third position.

   Jones came in third.

2. One of three equal parts of a whole.

   He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.

3. (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.

   Now put it into third.

4. (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

   They sing in thirds.

5. (baseball) third base

   The play ended with Jones standing on third.

6. (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
7. A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
8. (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.

Synonyms

• (gear): third gear
• (fractions): third part, ⅓

Derived terms

• two thirds, two-thirds, twothirds

Related terms

• riding

Translations

person or thing in the third position

• Afrikaans: derde (af)
• Armenian: երրորդ (hy) (errord)
• Basque: hirugarren (eu)
• Belarusian: трэ́ці (tréci)
• Bengali: তেসরা (teśra)
• Bulgarian: тре́ти (tréti)
• Catalan: tercer (ca)
• Czech: třetí osoba (cs) f
• Dutch: derde (nl)
• Finnish: kolmas (fi)
• French: troisième (fr) m or f, tiers (fr) m
• Galician: terceira f, terceiro (gl) m
• German: Dritter (de) m, Dritte (de) f
• Hungarian: harmadik (hu)
• Icelandic: þriðji m, þriðja f or n
• Interlingua: tertio m, tertia f

• Italian: terzo (it) m or f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سێیەم‎ (sêyem)

• Latin: tertius (la) m, tertia, tertia f, tertium
• Latvian: trešais m
• Lithuanian: trečias (lt) m, trečia f
• Macedonian: трет (tret), трети (treti)
• Maltese: terza m or f
• Occitan: tresen (oc)
• Portuguese: terceiro (pt) m
• Romanian: cel de al treilea m or n, cea de a treia f
• Russian: тре́тий (ru) (trétij)
• Spanish: tercero (es)
• Swedish: tredje (sv), trea (sv) c
• Turkish: üçüncü (tr)

one of three equal parts of a whole

• Arabic: ثُلْث‎ m (ṯulṯ)
• Armenian: երրորդ (hy) (errord)
• Asturian: terciu (ast) m
• Basque: heren (eu)
• Belarusian: траці́на f (tracína)
• Breton: trederenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: третина f (tretina)
• Catalan: tercer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三分之一 (sān fēn zhī yī)

• Czech: třetina (cs) f
• Danish: tredjedel c
• Dutch: derde (nl) n
• Esperanto: triono (eo)
• Estonian: kolmandik
• Finnish: kolmannes (fi), kolmasosa (fi)
• French: tiers (fr) m
• Galician: terzo m
• Georgian: მესამედი (mesamedi)
• German: Drittel (de) n, Drittel (de) m (Switzerland)
• Greek: τρίτο (el) n (tríto)

  Ancient: τρίτον n (tríton)

• Haitian Creole: tyè
• Hawaiian: hapakolu
• Hindi: तिहाई (hi) m (tihāī), तीहा (hi) m (tīhā)
• Hungarian: harmad (hu)
• Icelandic: þriðjungur m
• Interlingua: tertio
• Irish: trian (ga) m, treana m pl
• Italian: terzo (it) m
• Japanese: 三分の一 (さんぶんのいち, sanbun no ichi)

• Khmer: មួយភាគបី (muəy pʰiek bəy), ត្រីភាគ (trəy pʰiek)
• Korean: 3분의 1 (3bunui 1), 삼분의 일 (sambunui il)
• Latin: triens f
• Latvian: trešdaļa f
• Lithuanian: trečdalis m
• Macedonian: третина f (tretina)
• Maltese: terz
• Maori: hautoru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tredel (no) m, tredjedel (no) m

  Nynorsk: tredel m, tredjedel m

• Occitan: tèrç (oc)
• Persian: سیک‎ (fa) (siyak, seyek), سه‌یک‎ (se-yek)
• Polish: trzecia (pl) f
• Portuguese: terço (pt) m
• Romanian: treime (ro) f
• Russian: треть (ru) f (tretʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: trian m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трећина f

  Roman: trećina (sh) f

• Slovak: tretina f
• Slovene: tretjina (sl) f
• Spanish: tercio (es) m
• Swedish: tredjedel (sv)
• Tagalog: sangkatlo, katlo, saikatlo
• Tamil: மூன்றிலொரு (mūṉṟiloru)
• Ukrainian: трети́на f (tretýna)
• Vietnamese: phần ba
• Yiddish: דריטל‎ n (dritl)

third gear — see third gear

interval

• Afrikaans: terts
• Bulgarian: те́рца f (térca)
• Catalan: tercera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三度 (zh) (sāndù)

• Czech: tercie (cs) f
• Danish: terts c
• Dutch: terts (nl) f
• Esperanto: trito (eo), tercio (eo)
• Estonian: terts
• Finnish: terssi (fi)
• French: tierce (fr) f
• German: Terz (de) f
• Hungarian: terc
• Icelandic: þríund f
• Irish: tréach m

• Italian: terza (it) f
• Japanese: 三度 (ja) (さんど, sando)
• Lithuanian: tercija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ters m

  Nynorsk: ters m

• Occitan: tèrça (oc) f
• Polish: tercja (pl) f
• Portuguese: terça (pt) f
• Russian: те́рция (ru) f (tɛ́rcija)
• Slovene: têrca f
• Spanish: tercera (es) f
• Swedish: ters (sv) c
• Ukrainian: те́рція f (tércija)

third base — see third base

Verb

third (third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded)

1. (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
2. To divide into three equal parts.

Translations

agree with a proposition

divide into three parts

• Czech: třetit, roztřetit
• German: dreiteilen (de)
• Hungarian: harmadol (hu)

• Italian: atterzare (it)
• Latvian: dalīt trīs daļās

Related terms

• major third
• minor third
• third gear
• third person

 

See also

• interval

Anagrams

• drith, thrid