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tertia

tertia is a Latin form of tertius, meaning “third”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective or ablative singular feminine numeral or nominative singular feminine numeral.

Found 379 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.2.3: … grum Helvetium a Germanis dividit; altera ex parte monte Iura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit.

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.119: … aeque urbis partes, quae una via lata perpetua multisque transversis divisae privatis aedificiis continentur. Tertia est urbs quae, quod in ea parte Fortunae fanum antiquum fuit, Tycha nominata est; in qua gymnasium amplissimu …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.