tern vs ternion

tern

noun
  • A thing with three components; a set of three things. 

  • Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail. 

adj
  • Consisting of three components; ternate, threefold, triple. 

ternion

noun
  • The number three; three things together; a ternary or triplet. 

  • A section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages. 

How often have the words tern and ternion occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )