Word Origin Summary

Terzo is attested in Italian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. tertiusLatininherited from
2. ~Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• terz

  Maltese · borrowed from

• terzetto

  English · derived from

• terț

  Romanian · borrowed from

• terrathree

  Translingual · derived from

What You Can Explore

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