Tertia is an ancient Roman name for women, in Latin it denotes a third daughter of a family
People
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Aemilia Tertia (circa 230-163 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus
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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
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Mucia Tertia (1st century BC), daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola
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Licinia Tertia, (1st century BC), wife of
Gaius Marius the Younger
Gaius Marius "the Younger" (c. 110 – 82 BC) was a Roman republican general and politician who became consul in 82 BC with Papirius Carbo. He fought in Sulla's civil war. He committed suicide that same year at Praeneste, after his defeat by S ...
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Tertia (actress), ancient Roman actress
Other
* , a German cargo ship in service 1922-24
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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 air ...
tierce
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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. With Sext, None and Compline it belongs to the so-called "Little ...
, third of the canonical hours
See also
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Tertulla (disambiguation), a diminutive
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Roman naming conventions