Terz.
A third; an interval of 3 (minor third) or 4 (major third) semitones.
Meaning & usage
A third; an interval of 3 (minor third) or 4 (major third) semitones.
kleine Terz
große Terz
terce (prayer at the third hour of daylight)
tierce (a stance with the back of the hand facing up and the knuckles outwards)
tierce (a stance with the back of the hand facing up and the knuckles outwards) An attack from such a position.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle High German tërzje, tërze, from Latin tertia. Doublet of Tertia. The musical sense was a later semantic loan from Italian terza.
stink, fight, trouble (aggressive, quarrelsome behavior; typically as part of protesting or looking for a fight)
Terz machen
fuss (seemingly disproportionate occurence of effort or issues to achieve a goal)
Where this word comes from
Küpper derives it from a regional sense of "strike" of Terz f (etymology 1), likely originating in the fencing sense, contaminated with regional Dez m (“head”), originally in North-Western Germany. He dates it to the 1960s.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.