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Yes. The word tertius is a Scrabble US word. The word tertius is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

TERTIUS,

6-letter words (10 found)

SITTER,SUITER,TETRIS,TITERS,TITRES,TRISTE,TRITES,TRUEST,URITES,UTTERS,

5-letter words (27 found)

ETUIS,REIST,RESIT,RITES,RITTS,SIEUR,STIRE,STRUT,STURE,STURT,SUITE,TERTS,TETRI,TIERS,TIRES,TITER,TITRE,TREST,TRETS,TRIES,TRIST,TRITE,TRUES,TRUST,URITE,UTERI,UTTER,

4-letter words (43 found)

ERST,ETUI,IRES,IURE,REIS,REST,RETS,RISE,RITE,RITS,RITT,RUES,RUSE,RUST,RUTS,SEIR,SETT,SIRE,SITE,STET,STIE,STIR,SUER,SUET,SUIT,SURE,TEST,TETS,TIER,TIES,TIRE,TITE,TITS,TRES,TRET,TRIE,TRUE,TUIS,TUTS,URES,USER,UTES,UTIS,

3-letter words (30 found)

ERS,EST,IRE,ITS,REI,RES,RET,RIT,RUE,RUT,SEI,SER,SET,SIR,SIT,SRI,SUE,SUI,SUR,TES,TET,TIE,TIS,TIT,TUI,TUT,URE,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (13 found)

ER,ES,ET,IS,IT,RE,SI,ST,TE,TI,UR,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 125 words from tertius according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tertius

tertius

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós ~ *tritós, ordinal form of *tréyes. Akin to Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos), Proto-Germanic *þridjô and Proto-Slavic *tretь.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ti.us/, [ˈt̪ɛrt̪iʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.t͡si.us/, [ˈt̪ɛrt̪͡s̪ius]

Numeral

tertius (feminine tertia, neuter tertium); first/second-declension numeral

  1. third, the ordinal number after secundus (“second”) and before quārtus (“fourth”)
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tertius.

Usage notes

  • In a poetic sense it is used for the Roman "Third World", that is the "Underworld", of Pluto

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “tertius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tertius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tertius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tertius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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