tertian

1. 1.

   relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day

   “tertian fever”
2. 2.

   of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds

   “a tertian tonal system”

Questions about tertian

What does tertian mean?

tertian means "relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tertian?

tertian has 3 syllables: ter-ti-an. The stress falls on "ti".

Is tertian a common word?

tertian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.