Hyphenation of tertian

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word tertian? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

tert-ian

Definitions of tertian:

1.	Relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day Tertian fever
2.	Of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds A tertian tonal system

Synonyms of tertian:

adj	repeat, repetition
adj	interval, musical interval

Last hyphenations of this language

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