Tertia is the Latin word for "third"
People
edit- In ancient Roman the word often denoted a third daughter of a family
- Aemilia Tertia (circa 230-163 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus
- Junia Tertia (circa 60 BC-22 AD), daughter of Servilia Caepionis
- Mucia Tertia (1st century BC), daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola
- Licinia Tertia, (1st century BC), wife of Gaius Marius the Younger
- It could also refer to women of the Tertia gens
- Tertia (actress), 1st-century BC actress
Other uses
edit- SS Tertia, 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 tierce
- Terce, third of the canonical hours
See also
edit- Tertulla (disambiguation), a diminutive