different between tercel vs terce

English

Noun

tercel (plural tercels)

1. Alternative form of tiercel

Derived terms

• tercel gentle

Anagrams

• electr-

Hungarian

Etymology

terc +? -el (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?rt?s?l]
• Hyphenation: ter?cel
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophone: terccel

Verb

tercel

1. (intransitive, music) to sing or play a musical instrument in thirds

Conjugation

Further reading

• tercel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• tierce

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (hour): undern, half undern, undermeal, underntide, undertide (obsolete)
• (service): undern-song (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• (both senses): canonical hour
• (service): liturgy of the hours

Translations

Anagrams

• -crete, Crete, erect, recte

French

Verb

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

Anagrams

• crête

Hungarian

Etymology

terc +? -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?rt?s?]
• Hyphenation: ter?ce

Noun

terce

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of terc

Declension

Middle English

Noun

terce

1. Alternative form of ters

Old French

Adjective

terce m (oblique and nominative feminine singular terce)

1. Alternative form of tiers