Word of the Day:
trialogue
What It Means
A conversation or talk between three people.
An informal tripartite meeting attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission.
Trialogue in Context
“If you knew how happy it made me that, whenever she interrupted his monopoly of you, instead of making a trialogue with them, you never failed to turn to me!”
Did You Know?
From tri- + -alogue, formed on the analogy of dialogue, where the first syllable is interpreted as di-. Compare Medieval Latin trialogus. Note that official documents of the European Union use the spelling trilogue (perhaps influenced by the French spelling).
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