third

The third tree from the left is my favorite.

The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]

2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:

The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

derde

the ordinal form of the cardinal number three — see also 3rd

trois

in names of monarchs and popes; after the name; abbreviation III

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üčnč /üčünč/

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.


third

Jones came in third.

The person or thing in the third position.

He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.

Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.

2023 December 27, Philip Haigh, “All eyes are on the DfT as rolling stock concerns deepen”, in RAIL, number 999, page 19:

Now put it into third.

(uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.

They sing in thirds.

(music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

The play ended with Jones standing on third.

(golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.

A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme

(archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.

en-noun

third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)


third

(informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.

en-verb

third (third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded)

thirds (present singular third-person)
thirding (participle present)
thirded (participle past)
thirded (past)

yhtyä (+ illative, to the opinion one thirds)


third

From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.