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triscript

triscript adjective: using three scripts (especially of monolingual text).

Adjective

triscript (not comparable)

  1. Using three scripts (especially of monolingual text).
    • Coordinate term: biscript
    • A cognitive shift particular to the Late Period, changing the nature of the triscript system beyond recognition, was the fact that the palaeographies and orthographies of demotic became so distinct from their hieratic palaeographic predecessors that they were no longer mutually comprehensible.²¹³2021 December 6, Edward O. D. Love, Script Switching in Roman Egypt: Case Studies in Script Conventions, Domains, Shift, and Obsolescence from Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Old Coptic...
    Synonyms:
    triscriptal, triscriptual

Synonyms of triscript

Origin of triscript

tri- + script

Questions about triscript

What does triscript mean?
Triscript means using three scripts (especially of monolingual text).
What part of speech is triscript?
Triscript is an adjective.

Words near triscript in the dictionary

  1. trisazo
  2. triscatecholate
  3. triscatecholates
  4. triscele
  5. trisceles
  6. triscript
  7. triscriptal
  8. Triscuit
  9. Triscuits
  10. trisdithiolate
  11. trisdithiolates

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