Tertian

Definitions: Tertian

Tertian

Adjective

1. Relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day; "tertian fever".

2. Of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds; "a tertian tonal system".

Date "tertian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity	Hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal, hebdomadary; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tertian

English words defined with "tertian": Semitertian. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tertian": BAPTISM. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Tertian and Quartal Harmonic Superimpositions: A Provocative, Modern Polychordal Approach in Harmony for the Key-Board-Player, Guitarist, Arranger an (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways -- by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling. But whether the plan of immersion Is better than simple aspersion Let those immersed And those aspersed Decide by the Authorized Version, And by matching their agues tertian. G.J.
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"Tertian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tertian" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

Expressions using "tertian": tertian alternateprenominal ♦ tertian fever. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "tertian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ethe që acarohet dy ditë. (various references)

Bulgarian		който се явява през ден. (various references)

Danish		tertian, tertiær. (various references)

Dutch		anderdaagse koorts (tertian fever). (various references)

Esperanto		intermita febro (tertian fever). (various references)

French		tierce. (various references)

German		Tertianus, Tertian. (various references)

Greek		τριταίοσ πυρετόσ, τριταίοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		harmadnapos láz. (various references)

Italian		terzanario. (various references)

Pig Latin		ertiantay

Russian		малярия (ague, agues, chills and fever, malaria, swamp fever). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trodnevni. (various references)

Turkish		üç günde bir olan nöbet, üç günde bir olan. (various references)

Vietnamese		cách nhật. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tertian": tertians. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tertian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bertalan, Bertolan, Hertziana, Neritan, terian, terrian, tersian, tertain, tertia, tertier, tertium, terzian, tetani, toarcian, torita, torriani, Torriano, tortion, Tortona, tregian, tretan, Trevisan, Trevisani, Trewia, tritan, Tsektran, xerxian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: intreat, iterant, nattier, nitrate.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: attire, natter, ratine, ratite, ratten, retain, retina, retint, tinter.
	-2 letters: antre, entia, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, retia, riant, taint, tater, tenia, terai, tetra, tinea, titan, titer, titre, train, trait, treat, trine, trite.
	-3 letters: airn, airt, ante, anti, earn, etna, near, neat, nett, nite, rain, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, rite, tain, tare, tarn, tart, tate, tear, teat, tent, tern, tier, tine, tint, tire, tret.
	-4 letters: ain, air, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, ire, nae, net, nit, ran, rat, rei, ret, ria, rin, tae, tan, tar, tat, tea, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, re, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: attainer, gnattier, interact, intranet, intreats, martinet, nitrated, nitrates, reattain, retirant, straiten, tertians, treating, triptane.
	+2 letters: anorthite, argentite, attainder, attainers, battering, carnotite, certainty, crepitant, deratting, entertain, instanter, integrate, interacts, intimater, intranets, intreated, intricate, iterating, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, martinets, maternity, mattering, natrolite, nattering, orientate, paternity, patienter, pattering, rattening, reattains, reinstate, resistant, restating, restraint, retasting, retirants, stationer, sterilant, straitens, targeting, tattering, tearstain, terminate, threating, transient, transited, trepidant, tribunate, triptanes, trivalent, turbinate, yattering.
	+3 letters: alteration, anorthites, anthracite, antierotic, antihunter, antilitter, antimarket, antimatter, antinature, antistress, antistrike, antitrades, aquatinter, argentites, astringent, attainders, blattering, brattiness, cantatrice, carnotites, centralist, centrality, certainest, chattering, clattering, detracting, detraction, entertains, entreaties, entreating, eructating, eructation, estreating, exorbitant, extracting, extraction, flattering, fraternity, impartment, infiltrate, ingratiate, integrated, integrates, integrator, intenerate, interacted, intercaste, interfaith, intergraft, interparty, interplant, interstage, interstate, intertidal, intertrial, intimaters, intolerant, intraplate, intrastate, intreating, inveterate, iterations, itinerants, itinerated, itinerates, literation, marionette, martensite, monetarist, natrolites, negotiator, neutralist, neutrality, orientated, orientates, pargetting, parturient, patterning, portamenti, pretasting, quaternity, ratcheting, reattained, recitation, refutation, registrant, reinitiate, reinstated, reinstates, remittance, reputation, resistants, restarting, restraints, retracting, retraction, retransmit, retreating, scattering, shattering, smattering, spattering, stationers, stationery, stentorian, sterilants, straighten, straitened, straitness, tanistries, tantalizer, tearstains, tenantries, terminated, terminates, terminator, tetracaine, tetrazzini, thorianite, tolerating, toleration, torrential, trabeation, trajecting, trajection, transients, transitive, travertine, tribunates, tripinnate, tristearin, truantries, tryptamine, turbinated, turbinates, ventilator.
	+4 letters: actinometer, actinometry, adventurist, alterations, altercating, altercation, alternating, alternation, alternative, anorthosite, anteverting, anthracites, anticruelty, antimatters, antinatures, antineutron, antipoverty, antipyretic, antirealist, antistories, antistrophe, antitruster, aquatinters, arbitrament, astringents, attempering, betattering, botheration, cantatrices, centralists, centripetal, certainties, clarinetist, contractile, contractive, contrariety, contrastive, creationist, crepitating, crepitation, curtailment, deportation, determinant, determinate, detractions, detrainment, detrimental, deuterating, deuteration, elutriating, elutriation, entertained, entertainer, entrainment, erotization, eructations, exhortation, exportation, exterminate, externality, extirpating, extirpation, extractions, extraditing, extradition, extricating, extrication, forestation, foretasting, fractionate, handwritten, heartstring, impartments, impetrating, impetration, importunate, inadvertent, infiltrated, infiltrates, ingratiated, ingratiates, ingratitude, ingurgitate, integrality, integrating, integration, integrative, integrators, intemperate, intenerated, intenerates, interactant, interacting, interaction, interactive, interatomic, intercalate, intercostal, intercrater, interdental, intergrafts, internality, interplants, interpolate, interrelate, interrogate, interstates, interstrain, interstrand, intertribal, intractable, intrathecal, intricately, itinerantly, itinerating, itineration, literations, maltreating, marionettes, martensites, martensitic, maternities, metacentric, metrication, mistreating, monetarists, natriuretic, negotiators, negotiatory, neutralists, nonliterate, orientalist, orientating, orientation, overstating, parenthetic, partitioned, partitioner, parturients, paternalist, paternities, patternings, penetrating, penetration, penetrative, permutation, pertinacity, petitionary, potentiator, precipitant, pretreating, ratiocinate, rattlebrain, readmitting, reallotting, reattaching, reattacking, reattaining, recantation, recitations, refutations, registrants, reinitiated, reinitiates, reinstating, reintegrate, reiterating, reiteration, reluctating, reluctation, remittances, renegotiate, rentability, reorientate, repartition, reputations, restoration, retaliating, retaliation, retardation, retargeting, retinopathy, retractions, retransmits, retroacting, retroaction, scatterings, smatterings, splattering, squattering, straightens, straitening, tantalizers, tapestrying, tearstained, teratogenic, terminating, termination, terminative, terminators, tetracaines, thorianites, threatening, throatiness, tolerations, trabeations, trajections, tranquilest, transecting, transection, transfinite, transiently, translative, transmitted, transmitter, trapnesting, travertines, travestying, trepanation, trepidation, triangulate, tristearins, tryptamines, uncertainty, unresistant, unrestraint, ventilators, ventilatory, vinaigrette.
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