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translettering

translettering is the present participle and gerund of transletter.

Meaning of transletter

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

Questions about translettering

What is translettering the present participle and gerund of?
Translettering is the present participle and gerund of transletter.

Words near translettering in the dictionary

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

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