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Usages: English (Rare), Late Roman, German (Rare), Afrikaans
Pronunciation: TER-sha (English), TER-tsee-ah (German)
Meaning: Feminine form of Tertius.In Roman times commonly given to a third daughter as an "informal" name since they generally all bore the feminine form of their father's name, so "numbering" was a means to distinguish between the girls. In modern times, this name was revived in the 1600s and has been in occasional use ever since. The variant Terzia is also found.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=TERTIA+&last=&search=Suche
https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ATERTIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aemilia_(gens)#Members
Source re: the German name and variant: Kohlheim, Rosa/Kohlheim, Volker "Duden. Lexikon der Vornamen", Mannheim, Germany, 2013
(Information from name #4369 originally submitted by user WeloveyouJesseLacey)
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Pronunciation: TER-sha (English), TER-tsee-ah (German)
Meaning: Feminine form of Tertius.In Roman times commonly given to a third daughter as an "informal" name since they generally all bore the feminine form of their father's name, so "numbering" was a means to distinguish between the girls. In modern times, this name was revived in the 1600s and has been in occasional use ever since. The variant Terzia is also found.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=TERTIA+&last=&search=Suche
https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ATERTIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aemilia_(gens)#Members
Source re: the German name and variant: Kohlheim, Rosa/Kohlheim, Volker "Duden. Lexikon der Vornamen", Mannheim, Germany, 2013
(Information from name #4369 originally submitted by user WeloveyouJesseLacey)
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Tertia was born on Sicily as the daughter of the dancer-actor Isidorus. She is famous in history as the mistress of Verres, after he was appointed governor of Sicily in 74 BC.