trialogue

[trahy-uh-lawg, -log]

noun

1. a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trialogue¹

1525–35; tri- + (di)alogue, mistaken as a formation with di- ¹

Example Sentences

The EU is finalising the new rules through its trialogue process, in which the European commission, council and parliament negotiate a final version of the text.

From The Guardian

What began as dialogue, gathered energy as trialogue, and peaked as pentalogue, soon topples like a Babel tower and disperses into monologues of unconsoled dissociation: five separate “friends” unable to communicate, unable to connect, unable even to remember, nattering to themselves like lunatics, haunting the hallways, counting the stairs.

From New York Times

With Thomas Bock, now a professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Hamburg, she developed a “trialogue” initiative in 1989, designed to encourage conversation between patients, friends and relatives, and mental-health professionals.

From Washington Post

“Any amendment would mean breaking the trialogue agreement, leaving no time to reconsider a new text before the European elections, and leaving European citizens, businesses and the creative sector adrift in the Digital Single Market,” it said.

From Reuters

Last September, a narrow majority for Article 13 could only be found in the Parliament after a small business exception was included that was much stronger than the foul deal France and Germany are now proposing – but there’s unfortunately no reason to believe that Parliament negotiator Axel Voss will stand his ground and insist on this point in trialogue.

From The Verge