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Tertia


Tertia is the Latin word for "third"

People

  • In ancient Roman the word often denoted a third daughter of a family
    • Aemilia Tertia (circa 230-163 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus
    • Junia Tertia (circa 60 BC-22 AD), daughter of Servilia Caepionis
    • Mucia Tertia (1st century BC), daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola
    • Licinia Tertia, (1st century BC), wife of Gaius Marius the Younger
  • It could also refer to women of the Tertia gens
    • Tertia (actress), 1st-century BC actress

Other uses

  • , a German cargo ship in service 1922-24
  • Tertia (album), the second album by American band Caspian
  • The name Tertia is used to refer to Edith, one of the three Liddell Sisters (Lorina, Alice and Edith), within Lewis Carroll's poem 'All in the golden afternoon...'.
  • Tertia, alternative name for the organ stop tierce
  • Terce, third of the canonical hours
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