terce
See also: tercé
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Noun edit
terce (countable and uncountable, plural terces)
- (historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
- (chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.
- (Scots law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
Synonyms edit
- (hour): undern, half undern, undermeal, underntide, undertide (obsolete)
- (service): undern-song (obsolete)
Hypernyms edit
- (both senses): canonical hour
- (service): liturgy of the hours
Translations edit
third hour of daylight
Christian service during this hour
Anagrams edit
French edit
Verb edit
terce
- inflection of tercer:
Anagrams edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
terc + -e (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
terce
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of terc
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | terce | — |
| accusative | tercét | — |
| dative | tercének | — |
| instrumental | tercével | — |
| causal-final | tercéért | — |
| translative | tercévé | — |
| terminative | tercéig | — |
| essive-formal | terceként | — |
| essive-modal | tercéül | — |
| inessive | tercében | — |
| superessive | tercén | — |
| adessive | tercénél | — |
| illative | tercébe | — |
| sublative | tercére | — |
| allative | tercéhez | — |
| elative | tercéből | — |
| delative | tercéről | — |
| ablative | tercétől | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
tercéé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
tercééi | — |
Middle English edit
Noun edit
terce
- Alternative form of ters
Old French edit
Adjective edit
terce m (oblique and nominative feminine singular terce)
- Alternative form of tiers
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
terce