tertiary的词源

英文词源

tertiary

tertiary: see third

tertiary (adj.)

1650s, "of the third order, rank, degree, etc.," from Latin tertiarius "of or pertaining to a third," from tertius "third, a third," from root of tres "three" (see three). The geological sense (with capital T-) of "era after the Mesozoic" (which formerly was called the Secondary) is attested from 1794, after Italian terziari, used in this sense 1760 by Italian geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795).

中文词源

tertiary：第三的，第三位的

来自拉丁语 tertius,第三，来自 ter,三，词源同 three.

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