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triliteral, a. (n.)|traɪˈlɪtərəl|
[f. tri- + L. littera letter + -al1.]
Consisting of three letters.
1751Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 150 A [Hebrew] Root is usually triliteral, like [pāﻋal]. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech iii. (1873) 88 The root of the Semitic verb is always triliteral, or rather triconsonantic. 1884H. D. Traill in Macm. Mag. Oct. 444/1 Ignoramus..may annoy him even more than the triliteral Saxon..‘ass’.
B. n. A triliteral word or root.
1828Webster, Triliteral, n., a word consisting of three letters. 1839Pauli Analecta Hebraica v. 41 Consonants were added to the original bi-literal words, and thus tri⁓literals arose. 1896W. H. Ward in Hilprecht Rec. Res. in Bible Lands 180 The proper names of persons and cities resist the attempt to reduce them to Semitic triliterals or to Aryan roots.
Hence triˈliteralism, the use of triliteral roots, as in Semitic languages; triliteˈrality (cf. F. trilittéralité), triˈliteralness, triliteral character; triˈliterally adv.
1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 484 May not this habit..account for the Hebrew triliteralism? 1864Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1863 109 Their [sc. the Semitic languages'] most fundamental peculiarity is the triliterality of their roots, every Semitic verbal root containing just three consonants. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. ii. 77 The Semitic languages..entirely..built upon the principle of triliteralism. 1875Whitney Life Lang. xii. 248 The triliterality of the roots and their inflection by internal change. 1902Griffith in Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 728/1 The triliterality of Old Egyptian. |