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There are several suggestions regarding the origin of the first sense of the noun:[1][2]
It was from the traditional belief that the underworld bureaucracy will send four officials to bring the soul of a dead person down to the underworld court for judgment. The visitation of the third official means a person's death is approaching.
It was from the traditional belief that everyone has in his body four spirits called เจตภูต(jèet-dtà-pûut). When anyone is about to die, the spirits will leave his body one by one. As the third spirit has left, it means his condition is extremely worse and his death is impending.
She had suffered chronic tuberculosis with intervention of pneumonia. Her aged body could no longer bear it, as she reached the moribund point. At that time, Captain Doctor Prasop Wǭramit, a private physician, examined the pulse of the patient and whispered to me who was nearby, telling me that a funeral could now be arranged.
Of those accredited to Lanka for the first time in the reign of King Bǭrommakōt, the royal envoy held the title of Phra Sutham Maitrī, the vice envoy was Khun Wāthī Phičhit, and the third envoy was Mư̄n Phiphit Sanēhā.
As for the third envoy (that is, Ǭkkhun Sī Wisān Wāčhā), he was a son of a royal envoy of Siam who had gone out on an expedition to establish friendly relations in the city of Lisbon, which is the capital city of Portugal