The corpus record — Latin

tertiarius

tertiarius · adj

containing a third part

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

tertĭārĭus — Lewis & Short

tertĭārĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I containing a third part.

I Adj.: stannum, that contains one part of white and two of black lead, Plin. 34, 17, 48, § 160. —

II Subst.: tertĭārĭum, ii, n., a third part, a third, Cato, R. R. 95, 1; Vitr. 4, 7, 5.

In the wild

tertiarium Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.1.6
tertiarium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.17.p1
tertiarium Cato, De agri cultura 95
tertiarius Petronius, Satyricon 45
tertiarium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.17.p1
tertiario Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.7.5

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