Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe third hour of daylight (about 9 am). · The service appointed for this hour. · A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).
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