tiers

See also: Tiers

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tiers

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

tiers

1. plural of tier

Verb

tiers

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tier

Anagrams

• Istre, Reist, Siret, Sirte, iters, reist, resit, rites, tires, tries

Danish

Noun

tiers c

1. indefinite genitive singular of tier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tiers, from Latin tertius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tjɛʁ/

• Audio; “un tiers”:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Agen)):

  (file)

Adjective

French numbers ^(edit)

	30
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: trois     Ordinal: troisième     Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: tiers
French Wikipedia article on 3

tiers (feminine tierce, masculine plural tiers, feminine plural tierces)

1. (archaic) third

   Synonym: troisième

   Coordinate term: quart

   tiers-monde ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   tiers état ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. third-party

   une tierce personne ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Noun

French numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: trois     Ordinal: troisième     Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: tiers
French Wikipedia article on 3

tiers m (invariable)

1. a third (one of three equal parts)
2. a third-party (an outsider of a group)

Further reading

• “tiers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• rîtes, tires, tirés, tries, triés

Old French

Alternative forms

• terce
• tierz
• tierce (all attested with both masculine and feminine nouns)

Etymology

From Latin tertius.

Adjective

tiers m (occasionally used with feminine nouns)

1. third (3rd)

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	tiers	tierce	tiers
	oblique				tiers	tierce	tiers
plural	subject		tiers		tierces	tiers
	oblique		tiers			tierces	tiers

Descendants

• French: tiers