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transletter

transletter verb: to transliterate.

Verb

transletter (third-person singular simple present transletters, present participle translettering, simple past and past participle translettered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To transliterate.
    • But being evidently translettered from the Greek, it could be so only by having borne that sense in Greek first.1885, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin Review, volume 96, page 105

Forms of transletter

third-person singular presenttransletters
present participletranslettering
past participletranslettered
pasttranslettered

Origin of transletter

trans- + letter

Questions about transletter

What does transletter mean?
Transletter means to transliterate.
What part of speech is transletter?
Transletter is a verb.
What is the past tense of transletter?
The past tense of transletter is translettered.

Words near transletter in the dictionary

  1. translesbian
  2. translesbians
  3. translesion
  4. translesional
  5. translesionally
  6. transletter
  7. translettered
  8. translettering
  9. transletters
  10. transligamentous
  11. translimbal

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