tercia
Spanish, noun
tercia is spelled T-E-R-C-I-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 62,884th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tercia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “synonym of pie (the Spanish foot, a traditional unit of length)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of tercio. With an accent, terciá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of terciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Llámase así al madero que tiene un pie de ancho, y una quarta ó doce dedos de grueso, sin largo determinado”.
What does tercia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesynonym of pie (the Spanish foot, a traditional unit of length)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of tercio
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of terciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Llámase así al madero que tiene un pie de ancho, y una quarta ó doce dedos de grueso, sin largo determinado.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tercia
- tercias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tercia in Spanish?
tercia appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).