Tertia Explained

Tertia is the Latin word for "third"

People

• 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

• , 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

• Tertulla (disambiguation), a diminutive