third

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	30
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Cardinal : three     Ordinal : third     Adverbial : thrice     Multiplier : triple

Etymology

From Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: thû(r)d, IPA^(key): /θɜː(ɹ)d/
• (US) enPR: thûrd, IPA^(key): /θɝd/

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• (NYC) IPA^(key): /tɜjd/
• 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.‎

Synonyms

• 3rd, 3d; III

Derived terms

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

Translations

For abbreviations, please see 3rd

the ordinal form of the cardinal number three

• Afrikaans: derde
• Albanian: tretë (sq)
• Ancient Greek: τρίτος ‎(trítos)
• Arabic: ثَالِث m ‎(ṯāliṯ), ثَالِثَة f ‎(ṯāliṯa)

  Egyptian Arabic: تالت m ‎(tālit)

• Armenian: երրորդ (hy) ‎(errord)
• Aromanian: antreilu
• Asturian: terceru (ast)
• Azeri: üçüncü
• Bashkir: өсөнсө ‎(ösönsö)
• Basque: hirugarren (eu)
• Belarusian: трэ́ці m ‎(tréci)
• Bengali: তৃতীয় ‎(tritiyô)
• Breton: trede (br) m, 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)

• 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)
• Finnish: kolmas (fi)
• French: troisième (fr) m, f, (in names of monarchs and popes; after the name; abbreviation III) trois (fr) m, f
• Gagauz: üçüncü
• Galician: terceiro (gl)
• Georgian: მესამე ‎(mesame)
• German: dritte (de)
• Greek: τρίτος (el) ‎(trítos)
• Hawaiian: kolu
• Hebrew: שלישי ‎(shelîyshîy)
• Hindi: तीसरा (hi) ‎(tīsrā)
• Hungarian: harmadik (hu)
• Icelandic: þriðji m, þriðja f, n
• Ido: triesma (io)
• Indonesian: ketiga (id)
• Interlingua: tertie
• Irish: tríú (ga)
• Italian: terzo (it) m, terza (it) f, (in names of monarchs and popes) terzo (it) m, (after the name; abbreviation III) terza (it) f
• Japanese: 三番目 ‎(さんばんめ, sanban-me)
• Kalmyk: һурвдгч ‎(hurvdgç)
• Kazakh: үшінші ‎(üşinşi)
• Khakas: ӱзінӌі ‎(üzíncí)
• Khmer: ទីបី ‎(tii bəy)
• Korean: 셋째 (ko) ‎(setjjae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سێیه‌م ‎(saeam)

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

• Latin: tertius (la)
• Latvian: trešais (lv) m, trešā f
• Lithuanian: trečias (lt) m, trečia f
• Luxembourgish: drëtt
• Macedonian: тре́ти m ‎(tréti), трет m ‎(tret)
• Malay: ketiga (ms)
• Maltese: it-tilet
• Manchu: (ilaci)
• Manx: treeoo
• Maori: tuatoru, te toru
• Mongolian: гуравдугаар (mn) ‎(guravdugaar), гуравдахь ‎(guravdahʹ)
• Navajo: tááʼ góneʼ
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: traad

  Helgoland: dör

  Sylt: treer

• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: tredje (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: tredje (no), tridje

• Old Church Slavonic: трєти ‎(treti)
• Old English: þridda
• Old Frisian: thredda
• Old Turkic: 𐰇𐰲𐰨 ‎(üčünč)
• Ottoman Turkish: اوچنجى ‎(üçüncü)
• Persian: سوم (fa) ‎(sevvom)
• Polish: trzeci (pl)
• Portuguese: terceiro (pt) m, terceira (pt) f, (rarely) terço (pt) m, terça (pt) f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} al treilea (ro) m, n , ^{(please verify)} a treia f
• Russian: тре́тий (ru) ‎(trétij), 3-ий ‎(3-ij) (abbreviation)
• Rusyn: тре́тый ‎(trétŷj)
• Scottish Gaelic: treas, trìtheamh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трећи

  Roman: treći (sh)

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

  Upper Sorbian: třeći

• Southern Altai: ӱчинчи ‎(üčïnčï)
• Spanish: tercero (es) m, tercer (es) m, tercera (es) f
• Swahili: ya tatu
• Swedish: tredje (sv)
• Tagalog: ikatlo
• Tajik: сеюм (tg) ‎(seyum)
• Tatar: өченче ‎(öçençe)
• Telugu: మూడో ‎(mūḍō)
• Thai: ที่สาม ‎(têe săam)
• Turkish: üçüncü (tr)
• Turkmen: üçünji
• Ukrainian: тре́тій (uk) ‎(trétij)
• Uyghur: ئۈچىنچى ‎(üchinchi)
• Uzbek: uchinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ ba (vi)
• Volapük: kilid (vo)
• Welsh: trydydd (cy) m, trydedd f
• West Frisian: tredde (fy)
• Yakut: үһүс ‎(ühüs)
• Yiddish: דריט ‎(drit)

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. (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): ⅓

Translations

person or thing in the third position

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

• Italian: terzo (it) m, f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سێیه‌م ‎(saeam)

• Latin: tertius (la) m, tertia, tertia f, tertium
• Latvian: trešais (lv) m
• Lithuanian: trečias (lt) m, trečia f
• Lojban: cimoi
• Macedonian: трет ‎(tret), трети ‎(treti)
• Maltese: terza m, f
• Portuguese: terceiro (pt) m
• Romanian: cel de al treilea m, 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
• Czech: třetina (cs) f
• Danish: tredjedel c
• Dutch: derde (nl) n
• Esperanto: triono
• Finnish: kolmannes, kolmasosa
• French: tiers (fr) m
• Galician: terzo m
• German: Drittel (de)
• Greek: τρίτο (el) n ‎(tríto)
• Haitian Creole: tyè
• Hawaiian: hapakolu
• Hungarian: harmad (hu)
• Icelandic: þriðjungur m

• Interlingua: tertio
• Italian: terzo (it) m
• Khmer: មួយ​ភាគ​បី ‎(muəy pʰiek bəy), ត្រីភាគ ‎(trəy pʰiek)
• Latvian: trešdaļa f
• Lithuanian: trečdalis m
• Maltese: terz
• Mandarin: 三分之一 (zh) ‎(sānfēnzhīyī)
• Maori: hautoru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tredel m, tredjedel m

  Nynorsk: tredel m, tredjedel m

• Portuguese: terço (pt) m
• Romanian: treime (ro) f
• Russian: треть (ru) f ‎(tretʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: trian m
• Spanish: tercio (es) m
• Swedish: tredjedel (sv)
• Tagalog: sangkatlo, katlo, saikatlo
• Tamil: மூன்றிலொரு ‎(mūṉṟiloru)
• Yiddish: דריטל n ‎(dritl)

third gear — see third gear

interval

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

  Mandarin: 三度 (zh) ‎(sāndù)

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

• Icelandic: þríund f
• Italian: terza (it) f
• Japanese: 三度 (ja) ‎(sando)
• Lithuanian: tercija f
• Occitan: tèrça 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)

Verb

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

1. 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
• Hungarian: harmadol (hu)

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

Related terms

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

Wikipedia

See also

• interval

Anagrams

• thrid