Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1930.tertius on page 1930
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tertius third
tertius is a Latin Adjective that primarily means third.
Definitions for tertius
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
third
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Third in numerical order. (b) (esp. in enumerations). (c) ~a regna, the Underworld, the kingdom alloted to Pluto after Jupiter and Neptune had been given heaven and ocean respectively. (d) third in (spatial) position. (e) third in line of descent or in order of succession to an estate.
- 2
Third in order of time.
- 3
(reckoning inclusively from a point in time, etc.) Third, i.e. the last (or next) but one; nudius ~us, the day before yesterday (see NVDIVS). (b) (w. ref. to a recurring series) every second.
- 4
Additional to two others already known or mentioned, a third. (b) (of persons) present or involved with two others.
- 5
(a) Third in order of merit or importance; ~ae (partes), the third part in a play, etc. (b) third in order of size.
Sentences with tertius
Latin to English
Lībertās populō ab rēge tertiō brevī tempore dabitur.Compare Liberty will be given to the people by the third king in a short time.
Cōnsul tertium decimum sexāgēnos dēnāriōs plēbēi quae tum frūmentum pūblicum accipiēbat dedī; ea mīllia hominum paullō plūra quam dūcenta fuērunt. (Res gestae divi Augusti 15)Compare In my thirteenth consulship I gave 60 denarii each to the plebs who were then receiving public grain; this made up a few more than 200,000 people
Tertium, quae primo creduntur, et postea intelleguntur: qualia sunt ea, quae de divinis rebis non possunt intelligi, nisi ab his qui mundo sunt corde.Compare Third, those which are believed first and understood afterwards: such are those concerning divine things which can be understood only by those clean of heart.
Pars vix tertius is exercitus habeo, qui Iberus amnis trajicio.Compare He has scarce a third part of that army which he brought over the river Ebro.
Tertius vero ille sententia deterior, ut, quantus quisque sui ipse facio, tantus fio ab amicus.Compare But that third sentiment is the worst, that every man should be held by his friends at the same value as he holds himself.
Tertius consul expecto?Compare Are we waiting for a third consul?
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 488.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1930.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "tertius, tertia, tertium (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 24, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/tertius-tertia-tertium.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 488.on page 488
