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tertium quid

Meaning of "tertium quid" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TERTIUM QUID

From Late Latin, rendering Greek triton ti some third thing.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TERTIUM QUID

ˈtɜːtɪəm ˈkwɪd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TERTIUM QUID

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tertium quid is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TERTIUM QUID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tertium quid

Tertium quid refers to an unidentified third element that is in combination with two known ones. The phrase is associated with alchemy. It is Latin for "third thing", a translation of the Greek tríton ti. The Greek phrase was used by Plato, and by Irenæus. The earliest Latin example is by Tertullian, who used the phrase to describe a mixed substance with composite properties such as electrum, a somewhat different sense than the modern meaning.

Definition of tertium quid in the English dictionary

The definition of tertium quid in the dictionary is an unknown or indefinite thing related in some way to two known or definite things, but distinct from both.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TERTIUM QUID

equid · illiquid · Janjaweed · Janjawid · languid · liquid · nonliquid · obliquid · pinguid · quid · semiliquid · soliquid · squid · whid

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TERTIUM QUID

tertial · tertian · tertiaries · tertiary · tertiary bursary · tertiary college · tertiary colour · tertiary education · Tertiary period · tertiary sector · tertius · terts · Tertullian · Teruel · tervalency · tervalent · Terylene · terza rima · terze rime · terzetta

WORDS THAT END LIKE TERTIUM QUID

amniotic fluid · brake fluid · cerebrospinal fluid · charquid · cleaning fluid · correction fluid · de-icing fluid · drilling fluid · druid · embalming fluid · fluid · guid · muid · not the full quid · solvent liquid · spinal fluid · suid · superfluid · washing-up liquid · working fluid

Synonyms and antonyms of tertium quid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tertium quid» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of tertium quid to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tertium quid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tertium quid» in English.
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tertium镑
1,325 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
570 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
510 millions of speakers
hi

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tertium रुपये
380 millions of speakers
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الثلثية مضغة
280 millions of speakers
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Tertium фунтов
278 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
270 millions of speakers
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তাতিয়াম
260 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
220 millions of speakers
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Tertium quid
190 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
180 millions of speakers
ja

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tertiumの頭の良い
130 millions of speakers
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tertium 의 pond 지폐
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Katresnan
85 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
80 millions of speakers
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மூன்றாம் நிலை
75 millions of speakers
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टेटियमची संख्या
75 millions of speakers
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Tertiyum kumbaramı
70 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
65 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
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Tertium фунтів
40 millions of speakers
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tertium lire
30 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
15 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
14 millions of speakers
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tertium quid
10 millions of speakers
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Tertium pund
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TERTIUM QUID»

Discover the use of tertium quid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tertium quid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tertium Quid
Christopher Veidt. IIHRIQTQPIHJR VIIIIH' Tertium Quid A Volume of Writing, by Christopher Veidt This. Front Cover.
Christopher Veidt
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Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Edmund Gurney, 2009
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Robert Browning's Romantic Irony in The Ring and the Book
The final monologue in this triad — Tertium Quid's speech — underscores the importance of process not only to the first triad but to The Ring and the Book as a whole. David Shaw says that Tertium Quid is a deconstructionist: "his indifference  ...
Patricia Diane Rigg, 1999
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
Coming up the Cemetery road, the Tertium Quid's horse tried to bolt uphill, being tired with standing so long, and managed to strain a back sinew. 'I shall have to take the mare to-morrow,' said the Tertium Quid, 'and she will stand nothing ...
Rudyard Kipling, 2004
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Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity
This place in-between, this third term that is not a term, represents Beckett's update of what in classical philosophy was referred to as the tertium quid, that intermediate component that partakes of two mutually exclusive categories without ...
Richard Begam, 1996
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Plato on Punishment
These other factors are dunamis kai techne. Dunamis, I suggest,19 refers to the capacity to avoid external coercion or inhibition,20 such. 3. ignorance □ . — ( knowledge v tertium quid) (contraries) vice □ — virtue (contradictories) knowledge ...
Mary Margaret Mackenzie, 1981
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The Mind of Edmund Gurney
The essays contained in these volumes are revised reprints of articles which have appeared in reviews; and the title "Tertium Quid" hints at the fact that many of them seek to mediate, by new points of view, in certain old disputes. The essays in ...
Gordon Epperson, 1997
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Essays, Comments, and Reviews
130 Tertium Quid, by Edmund Gurney (i Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions. By Edmund Gurney. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1887. Mr. Gurney is already well known as the author of two more substantial  ...
William James, 1987
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Under the Deodars
One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground. They had marked out a full- size grave, and the Tertium Quid asked them whether any Sahib was sick. They said that ...
Rudyard Kipling, 2002
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The Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation
When the soul/body relationship is used as a model for the incarnational union, both the divinity and the humanity are always jeopardized, for a tertium quid being is always lurking close at hand. The tendency is either to have the divinity wash ...
Thomas Weinandy, Daniel A. Keating, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TERTIUM QUID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tertium quid is used in the context of the following news items.
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Francis, Capitalism, and Catholic Social Teaching
Robert Sirico, Michael Novak, Arthur Brooks, and many others are therefore right in suggesting that Catholic Social Teaching does not represent a tertium quid ... «Catholic World Report, Jul 15»
2
Inside Don Drapers Big Sur Nirvana: The Esalen Institute
Esalen's tertium quid, or "third thing" beyond all of that certainly finds deep roots in the history of science itself. Alfred Russel Wallace, who co-proposed the ... «Daily Beast, May 15»
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(R)evolution in Berlin: 'Sontag Revisited'
... REVISITED" struggle for definition of her relevance today as a third entity, thereby placing her in the context of Nietzsche's self-identity as Tertium Quid. «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett
The answer adds (to the question's merely double-minded equation) a subliminal, if not sublime, tertium quid, or third thing. Given the history of relations ... «TheStranger.com, Sep 14»
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Murray Moss Back in the Public Eye
Tertium Quid,” as Moss has titled the exhibit, follows a book of the same name that came out in May and features 25 pairs of images juxtaposed for effect, ... «Women's Wear Daily, Jul 14»
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May book news: eight new tomes to add to your shelves
Tertium Quid, limited to just 1250 numbered copies, creates new stories out of the juxtaposition of old images, culled from press archives and wire services from ... «wallpaper.com, May 14»
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13 Must-See Art Shows Opening This Week
Also on Monday, Hauser & Wirth (511 West 18th Street) hosts a private reception and book-signing for Murray Moss' new book, Tertium Quid: Pictorial Narratives ... «Papermag, May 14»
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From the Design Curator Murray Moss, a Book of Unexpected …
Tertium Quid,” which is Latin for “third thing,” is also dedicated to Moss's sister, Jean Moss Weintraub, a commercial photographer who passed away just over a ... «New York Times, May 14»
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(R)evolution at the 64th Berlinale: Clooneymania to Nymphomania …
I wraps up by circling back to Nietzsche's self-proclaimed identity as Tertium Quid in a three part passion play in which the sexual polarity alchemically merges ... «Huffington Post, Feb 14»
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Vermont's Republican Radical
Years ago, John described his politics to me: “I am a 1700s Virginia republican, an 1800 Tertium Quid, an 1830s Loco Foco, an 1850s Republican, an 1890s ... «The American Conservative, Dec 13»
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