tertiary

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.ʃi.ə.ɹiː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.ʃə.ɹiː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːʃ.ɹiː/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈtɝ.ʃiˌɛɹ.i/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈtɝ.ʃə.ɹi/
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• Australian: /ˈtɜː.ʃi.ə.ɹiː/
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• Australian: /ˈtɜː.ʃə.ɹiː/
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• Australian: /ˈtɜːʃ.ɹiː/
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• CMU ARPABET: T ER1 SH ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: T ER1 SH IY0 EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *tréyes Borrowed from the Latin tertiārius (“of the third part or rank”), from tertius (“third”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós, whence English third) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French tertiaire. By surface analysis, terti- + -ary.

See tertiary.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: трети по важност (treti po važnost) — of third rank or order
• Catalan: terciari — of third rank or order
• Chinese Mandarin: 第三的 — of third rank or order
• Danish: tertiær — of third rank or order
• Dutch: tertiair — of third rank or order
• Esperanto: terciara — of third rank or order
• Esperanto: triaspeca — of third rank or order
• Esperanto: triaranga — of third rank or order
• Finnish: tertiaarinen — of third rank or order
• French: tertiaire — of third rank or order
• Galician: terciario — of third rank or order
• German: tertiär — of third rank or order
• Greek: τριτογενής (tritogenís) — of third rank or order
• Greek: τριτοβάθμιος (tritováthmios) — of third rank or order
• Hebrew: שלישוני (shlishoni) — of third rank or order
• Hungarian: tercier — of third rank or order
• Icelandic: þriðji — of third rank or order
• Ido: terciara — of third rank or order
• Indonesian: tersier — of third rank or order
• Italian: terziario — of third rank or order
• Japanese: 3次的な (sanjiteki-na) — of third rank or order
• Japanese: 3番目の (sanbanme-no) — of third rank or order
• Malay: tertier — of third rank or order
• Norwegian Bokmål: tertiær — of third rank or order
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tertiær — of third rank or order
• Polish: trzeciorzędny — of third rank or order
• Portuguese: terciário — of third rank or order
• Romanian: terțiar — of third rank or order
• Russian: трети́чный (tretíčnyj) — of third rank or order
• Spanish: terciario — of third rank or order
• Swedish: tertiär — of third rank or order
• Turkish: üçüncül — of third rank or order
• Catalan: terciari — of the first part of the Cenozoic era
• Catalan: terciària — of the first part of the Cenozoic era
• Finnish: tertiäärikautinen — of the first part of the Cenozoic era
• Finnish: tertiäärinen — of the first part of the Cenozoic era
• Georgian: მესამეული (mesameuli) — of the first part of the Cenozoic era
• Italian: terziario — of the first part of the Cenozoic era
• Polish: trzeciorzędowy — of the first part of the Cenozoic era
• Catalan: terciari — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Finnish: tertiäärikausi — first part of the Cenozoic era
• French: Tertiaire — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Georgian: მესამეული სისტემა (mesameuli sisṭema) — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Georgian: მესამეული პერიოდი (mesameuli ṗeriodi) — first part of the Cenozoic era
• German: Tertiär — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Hungarian: harmadkor — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Hungarian: harmadidőszak — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Italian: terziario — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Japanese: 第三紀 (daisanki) — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Polish: trzeciorzęd — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Swedish: tertiär — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Vietnamese: kỉ Đệ Tam — first part of the Cenozoic era
• Bulgarian: махово перо (mahovo pero) — tertiary feather
• Italian: terziario — tertiary feather
• Polish: lotka trzeciego rzędu — tertiary feather
• Italian: terziario — Roman Catholicism: member of a third order
• Polish: tercjarz — Roman Catholicism: member of a third order
• Polish: tercjarka — Roman Catholicism: member of a third order