terce

See also: tercé

English

Alternative forms

• tierce

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɜːs/
• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /tɝːs/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
• Homophone: terse

Noun

terce (countable and uncountable, plural terces)

1. (historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
2. (chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.
3. (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

• (hour): undern, half undern, undermeal, underntide, undertide (obsolete)
• (service): undern-song (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• (both senses): canonical hour
• (service): liturgy of the hours

Translations

third hour of daylight

• Catalan: terça (ca) f
• Dutch: terts (nl) m or f
• French: tierce (fr) f
• Old English: undern m, undernmæl, underntid, underntima
• Walloon: tice (wa) m

Christian service during this hour

• Catalan: terça (ca) f
• Dutch: terts (nl) m or f
• French: tierce (fr) f
• Old English: undernsang, underntid
• Walloon: tice (wa) m

Anagrams

• -crete, Crete, erect, recte

French

Verb

terce

1. inflection of tercer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• crête

Hungarian

Etymology

terc +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛrt͡sɛ]
• Hyphenation: ter‧ce

Noun

terce

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of terc

Declension

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

Noun

terce

1. Alternative form of ters

Old French

Adjective

terce m (oblique and nominative feminine singular terce)

1. Alternative form of tiers

Portuguese

Verb

terce

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of terçar