View Message

I don't really like the name, because its meaning implies (at least historically) that some parents didn't feel the need to name their son so just called him the third-born. I've seen this used in it's feminine form, Tertia, third-born (and unappreciated) daughter in a historical fiction novel set in Rome. I've never heard it used in the modern day.

---

"Les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur." -- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This message was edited 10/17/2005, 8:08 PM