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Inherited from Latin tertius, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *tertīvus or with -iu added (as the normal result in Romanian would have been *terți). Compare the borrowed doublet terț; compare also the related term anțărț. [1]

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terțiu m or n (feminine singular terție, plural terții)

  1. (popular, of a ram) that is in its third year

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References edit

  1. ^ terțiu in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)