terce
nounUK /tɜːs/ · CA, US /tɝːs/
Etymology Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).
1
Historical The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
2
Catholicism, Christianity, Roman Catholicism The service appointed for this hour.
Eastern Orthodoxy
3
A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
- Synonyms
- undern, half undern, undermeal, underntide, undertide, undern-time, undern-song
- Hypernyms
- canonical hour, liturgy of the hours