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- Proto-Indo-European*tréyes
- Proto-Indo-European*tri-
- Proto-Indo-European*tritós
- Proto-Italic*tritios
- Latintertiu
- Spanishtercio
- English todaytercio
Borrowed from Spanish tercio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tercio
Today it means: Any of the three stages of a bullfight: the vara, the banderilla and finally the death. Full definition →
Spanish tercio ← Latin tertiu ← Proto-Italic *tritios