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Conference oass::babynames

Title:A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
Notice:BABYNAMES is now on-line and writable! Enjoy...
Moderator:OASS::BURDEN_D
Created:Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:996
Total number of notes:7139

67.0. "Terza" by 8596::ZANE (Shattering Reality) Tue Dec 30 1986 18:59

  Hi there!  I wanted to catch up on this file before entering my name.
  Since I have done so, here goes:
  
  My name is Terza.  It is mentioned in the Bible exactly once, in Numbers
  36:11.  Actually, I've seen many spellings of it, Tierzah, being the
  most used.  My mother shortened it, because she thought the original
  name was too long for such a small baby.    
  
  I've never met anyone else with it, 'though I have seen it in a cemetery...
  
  I saw it in a large book of names (sorry, don't remember the title)
  and it was defined as "cypress tree."
  
  (By the way, it's pronounced as though it were still the long version...)
  
  
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67.1As in "terza rima"15521::ROBERTThis is life--nothing's sure.Sat Jan 17 1987 16:421
    Terza means "third" in Italian.  Are you the third child?
67.2are you the third?7300::OSTIGUYMon Mar 23 1987 10:307
    Yes, I agree.
    
    I found Terza in my baby book.  It's a variation of Tertia and it
    means "third child"  It states it as Latin.
    
    Anna
    
67.3COOKIE::ZANEShattering RealityMon Mar 23 1987 16:1314
  When I was in Italy, the person running whatever hostel or pension that I
  was staying at would always exclaim, "Terza!  So you're Italian?"  I
  always shook my head, more amused than anything else.
  
  Since my mother shortened it from Tierzah, I had always likened it to
  Tirzah, rather than Terza, at least because of its pronunciation.  Does
  anyone have any idea what the other two mean?
  
  
  
  							Terza