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tercios

tercios is the plural of tercio.

Meaning of tercio

Noun

tercio (plural tercios)

  1. Any of the three stages of a bullfight: the vara, the banderilla and finally the death.
  2. A mutually supportive infantry formation made up of pikemen, swordsmen and arquebusiers or musketeers.

Questions about tercios

What is tercios the plural of?
Tercios is the plural of tercio.

Words near tercios in the dictionary

  1. tercians
  2. tercile
  3. terciles
  4. tercine
  5. tercio
  6. tercios
  7. terconazole
  8. terdiurnal
  9. Tere Asar
  10. terebate
  11. terebates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tercios (page history and authors); tercio (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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