terço

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) third (one of three parts of a whole)
2. (masculine) prayer beads used to pray; the rosary
3. (historical,masculine) tercio (a type of military formation used in the early modern age)

Adj

which is one third (1/3) of something

Adj

third

Hyphenated as

ter‧ço

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈteʁ.su/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese terço, from Latin tertius (“third”), from trēs (“three”), from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.