thirdly

English

Alternative forms

• 3rdly
• thyrdly, 3dly, 3ᵈˡʸ (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English third

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English thirdly

From third + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜːdli/, /ˈθɜːdlɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈθɚdli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

thirdly (not comparable)

1. In the third place; third in a row.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:28:

     And God hath ſet ſome in the Church, firſt Apoſtles, ſecondarily Pꝛophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmẽts, diuerſities of tongues.

   • 1969 April, J. P. Day, “Hope”, in American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 6, number 2, →JSTOR, page 90:

     Thirdly, because Hope includes Desire, and Desire is commonly, though mistakenly, thought to be an emotion.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

     Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

Translations

in the third place; third in a row

• Arabic: ثَالِثًا (ṯāliṯan)
• Armenian: երրորդ (hy) (errord)
• Bashkir: өсөнсөнән (ösönsönän)
• Belarusian: па-трэ́цяе (pa-trécjaje)
• Catalan: tercer (ca), tercerament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三來 / 三来 (sānlái), 第三 (zh) (dìsān)

• Czech: za třetí
• Danish: for det tredje
• Esperanto: trie
• Estonian: kolmandaks
• Finnish: kolmanneksi (fi)
• French: troisièmement (fr), tertio (fr)

  Old French: tiercement

• German: drittens (de)
• Hungarian: harmadszor (hu)
• Italian: terziamente
• Japanese: 第三に (ja) (だいさんに, daisan ni)
• Kazakh: үшіншіден (üšinšiden)
• Korean: 셋째로 (ko) (setjjaero)
• Marathi: तिसरे n (tisre)
• Persian: ثالثاً (sâlesan), سوماً (sevvoman)
• Polish: po trzecie
• Portuguese: terceiramente
• Russian: в-тре́тьих (ru) (v-trétʹix)
• Slovak: po tretie
• Swedish: för det tredje
• Tajik: солисан (solisan)
• Ukrainian: по-тре́тє (po-trétje)
• Uzbek: uchinchidan (uz)
• Yiddish: דריטנס (dritns)