Terce
/tɜːs/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The third hour of daylight (about 9 am). countable, historical, uncountable
- 2 the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. wordnet
- 3 The service appointed for this hour. countable, uncountable
- 4 A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property. countable, uncountable
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All synonymsEtymology
Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).