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triliteral

adj

Etymology

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

  1. derived from litera — “letter”

Definitions

  1. Of word roots in Afroasiatic languages

    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.

  2. A word root in an Afroasiatic language that consists of three letters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for triliteral. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA