terce

• tierce

From Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”)

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. (Scotland, 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. first-person singular present indicative of tercer
2. third-person singular present indicative of tercer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tercer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tercer
5. second-person singular imperative of tercer

• crête

terce

1. Alternative form of ters

terce m (oblique and nominative feminine singular terce)

1. Alternative form of tiers