tertiarius

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Definitions
  • containing a third part
  • (Medieval Latin) of or pertaining to the third orders, that is, Catholic orders of secular laypeople, who do not take any monastic vows nor are ordained but who nonetheless live according to certain standards of piety

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Suffix from Latin tertius (third).

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Latin

tertius

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third

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