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• tierce

語源

Late 中期英語, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɜːs/
• (Canada, 米国発音) IPA: /tɝːs/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)s
• Homophone: terse

名詞

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. (Scots law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

同意語

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

上位語

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

アナグラム

• -crete, Crete, erect, recte