tertianとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English tertiān, terciān, terciāne (adjective かつ noun), originally often as part of the collocation fever cum terciane, after Latin febris cum tertiānā.

形容詞

tertian (not comparable)

1. (medicine, of a fever) Characterised by paroxysms recurring every other day (that is, every third day by inclusive reckoning).
2. (music) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.

名詞

tertian (複数形 tertians)

1. A tertian fever.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     And although we feele it not, it is not to bee doubted, if a continuall ague may in the end suppresse our mind, a tertian will also (according to her measure かつ proportion) breed some alteration in it.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 1:

     He died of the slow fever call'd the tertian, / And left his widow to her own aversion.

2. The puncheon, an old wine cask, three of which made a tun.

アナグラム

• intreat, iterant, natrite, nattier, nitrate, tainter, tartine