terço

See also: terco

Portuguese
Portuguese numbers (edit)
30[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: três
    Ordinal: terceiro
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3.º
    Multiplier: triplo, tríplice
    Fractional: terço
    Group: trio, trinca, terceto, tríade
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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese terço, from Latin tertius (“third”), from trēs (“three”), from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈteʁ.su/ [ˈteh.su]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈteɾ.su/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈteʁ.su/ [ˈteχ.su]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈteɻ.so/

  • Hyphenation: ter‧ço
  • Homophone: terso

Noun

terço m (plural terços)

  1. (fractional number) third (one of three parts of a whole)
  2. (Roman Catholicism) prayer beads used to pray; the rosary
    Synonym: rosário
  3. (historical, military) tercio (a type of military formation used in the early modern age)

Quotations

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Adjective

terço (feminine terça, masculine plural terços, feminine plural terças, not comparable)

  1. which is one third (1/3) of something

Quotations

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Adjective

terço (feminine terça, masculine plural terços, feminine plural terças)

  1. (archaic) third
    Synonyms: terceiro, tércio

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:terço.

Derived terms
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