Tercel Definition

tûrsəl
noun
A male falcon or hawk, especially a peregrine falcon or gyrfalcon.
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Alternative form of tiercel.

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Alternative form of terzel.
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Alternative form of tassel.

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Other Word Forms of Tercel

Noun

Singular:
tercel
Plural:
tercels

Origin of Tercel

  • Middle English from Old French terçuel from Vulgar Latin tertiōlus diminutive of Latin tertius third (perhaps because the third egg in every clutch was thought to hatch into a male, or because male hawks were said to be a third smaller than females) trei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French terçuel, from Vulgar Latin {{term|*tertiolus, from Latin tertius.

    From Wiktionary

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