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triliteral

triliteral adjective: consisting of three letters.

Adjective

triliteral (not comparable)

  1. 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.1911 December 13, C. J. Ball, “A Study in Biblical Philology”, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, volume XXXIII, number CCXLIX, London: Society of Biblical Archaeology, →OCLC, page...

Noun

triliteral (plural triliterals)

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

triliteral meaning in Tamil and Urdu

triliteral in Tamil

மூவெழுத்துக்களாலான, மூன்று மொழிகளைப் பயன்படுத்துகிற

triliteral in Urdu

سہ زبان

Forms of triliteral

pluraltriliterals

Origin of triliteral

From tri- + Latin lītera (“letter”) + English -al.

Words formed from triliteral

Questions about triliteral

What does triliteral mean?
Triliteral means consisting of three letters.
What is triliteral in Tamil?
Triliteral in Tamil is மூவெழுத்துக்களாலான, மூன்று மொழிகளைப் பயன்படுத்துகிற. See Triliteral meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is triliteral?
Triliteral can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near triliteral in the dictionary

  1. trilinoleates
  2. trilinolein
  3. trilinolenate
  4. trilinolenin
  5. triliteracy
  6. triliteral
  7. triliteralism
  8. triliterality
  9. triliterally
  10. triliteralness
  11. triliterals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: triliteral (page history and authors); triliteral (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); triliteral (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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