triliteral

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Definition of triliteral

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Of word roots in Afroasiatic languages: consisting of three letters.

“[T]he philologist may well refuse to accept a body of triliteral roots, developed on a highly artificial and uniform plan, as the ultimate fact in Semitic lexicography.”

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adj

(not-comparable)Of word roots in Afroasiatic languages: consisting of three letters.

“[T]he philologist may well refuse to accept a body of triliteral roots, developed on a highly artificial and uniform plan, as the ultimate fact in Semitic lexicography.”

noun

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From tri- (“three”) + Latin litera (“letter”) + -al.

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