Tertia is the Latin word for "third"

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*In ancient Roman the word often denoted a third daughter of a family **

Aemilia Tertia Aemilia Tertia ( 162 or 163 BC), properly Aemilia, was the wife of Scipio Africanus. Life She was a member of the gens Aemilia, one of the ancient Roman patrician families, and the daughter of Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219 BC), Luciu ...

(circa 230-163 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus **

Junia Tertia Junia Tertia, also called Tertulla, (c. 75 BC – 22 AD) was the third daughter of Servilia and her second husband Decimus Junius Silanus, and later the wife of Gaius Cassius Longinus. Biography Early life Through her mother, she was the younger ...

(circa 60 BC-22 AD), daughter of Servilia Caepionis **

Mucia Tertia Mucia Tertia ( 79 – 31 BC) was a Roman '' matrona'' who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the '' pontifex maximus'' and consul in 95 BC. Around 79 BC, Mucia married Pompey, a lead ...

(1st century BC), daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola ** Licinia Tertia, (1st century BC), wife of

Gaius Marius the Younger Gaius Marius "the Younger" ( – 82 BC) was a Roman republican general and politician who became consul in 82 BC with Gnaeus Papirius Carbo. He was the son of the Gaius Marius who was the victor of the Jugurthine and Cimbric wars. ...

* It could also refer to women of the Tertia gens **

Tertia (actress) {{short description, Ancient Roman actress and dancer Tertia (died ''after'' 74 BC) was an ancient Roman actress and dancer. Tertia was born on Sicily as the daughter of the dancer-actor Isidorus. She is famous in history as the mistress of Verr ...

, 1st-century BC actress

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* , 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 An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as ''wind'') to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops can be used selectively by the organist; each can be "on" (admitting the passage of a ...

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Terce Terce is a canonical hour of the Divine Office. It consists mainly of psalms and is held around 9 a.m. Its name comes from Latin and refers to the third hour of the day after dawn. Along with Prime, Sext, None, and Compline, Terce belongs ...

, third of the canonical hours

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