terce

• tierce

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

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

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.

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

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

• -crete, Crete, erect, recte

terce

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

• crête

terc +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

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

terce

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

terce

1. Alternative form of ters

terce m (oblique and nominative feminine singular terce)

1. Alternative form of tiers

terce

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of terçar