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Definition of Triliteral
1. a. Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word.
Definition of Triliteral
1. Adjective. Used to describe word roots in Semitic languages which consist of three letters ¹
2. Noun. A word root in a Semitic languages which consist of three letters ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Triliteral
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triliteral
Literary usage of Triliteral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Arabic Language by Carl Paul Caspari, William Wright, William Robertson Smith, Michael Jan de Goeje (1896)
"The great majority of the Arabic verbs are triliteral that is to say, ... From the
first or ground-form of the triliteral and quadri- B literal verbs are ..."
2. An Arabic Manual by John Gulian Lansing (1886)
"From the first or ground form of the triliteral and ... The derived forms or
conjugations of the triliteral verb number fifteen. The last three, however, ..."
3. Ethiopic Grammar by August Dillmann, Carl Bezold, James A. Crichton (1907)
"... at one time was employed in the formation of Causative stems (§ 79), — may
still be clearly recognised both in certain triliteral roots (§ 70 ad fin. ..."
4. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"and Van; «nj and Sometimes also, like M and n, it • prefixed to triliteral roots,
and thua forms ..."
5. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1869)
"As to the establishment of its truth and its competency to explain the formation
of the later triliteral roots, he has certainly trusted too much to ..."
6. Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll (1896)
"THE triliteral DIAGRAM. Xi/ xy CHAPTER I. SYMBOLS AND CELLS. FIRST, let us suppose
that the above Ze/i-hand Diagram is the ..."
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