tiers

See also: Tiers

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tiers

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tiers

1. plural of tier

Verb

tiers

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tier

Anagrams

• Istre, Reist, Siret, Sirte, iters, reist, resit, rites, tires, tries

Danish

Noun

tiers c

1. indefinite genitive singular of tier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tiers, terce, tierz, tierce, from Latin tertius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tjɛʁ/

• Audio; “un tiers”:

  (file)

Adjective

French numbers ^(edit)

	30
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: trois     Ordinal: troisième     Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: tiers
French Wikipedia article on 3

tiers (feminine tierce, masculine plural tiers, feminine plural tierces)

1. (dated) third
2. third-party

Synonyms

• (third): troisième

Derived terms

• tiers-monde

Noun

French numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: trois     Ordinal: troisième     Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème     Multiplier: triple     Fractional: tiers
French Wikipedia article on 3

tiers m (plural tiers)

1. a third (one of three equal parts)
2. a third-party (an outsider of a group)

Further reading

• “tiers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rîtes, tires, tirés, tries, triés

Old French

Alternative forms

• terce
• tierz
• tierce (all attested with both masculine and feminine nouns)

Etymology

From Latin tertius.

Adjective

tiers m (occasionally used with feminine nouns)

1. third (3rd)

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	tierss	tierce	tiers
	oblique	tiers			tierce	tiers
plural	subject	tiers	tiercess		tiers
	oblique	tierss			tiercess	tiers