sinistrograde
sinistrograde adjective: of a writing system: written from right to left, such as in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts.
Adjective
sinistrograde (not comparable)
- Of a writing system: written from right to left, such as in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts.
- Although earlier inscriptions can be dextrograde (written and read left to right), sinistrograde (written and read right to left), or boustrophedon (a method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and then from left to right) and written either vertically or horizontally...2017, Mark Woolmer, A Short History of the Phoenicians, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., →ISBN, page 80
Origin of sinistrograde
From sinistro- + -grade.
Questions about sinistrograde
- What does sinistrograde mean?
- Sinistrograde means of a writing system: written from right to left, such as in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts.
- What part of speech is sinistrograde?
- Sinistrograde is an adjective.
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