triliteral
Americanadjective
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using or consisting of three letters.
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(of Semitic roots) consisting of three consonants.
noun
adjective
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having three letters
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(of a word root in Semitic languages) consisting of three consonants
noun
Etymology
Origin of triliteral
Example Sentences
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For 90 years Britons have adventured out to India and returned a-homing upon steamers bearing the triliteral device, "P. & O."
From Time Magazine Archive
The triliteral name of God in the Brahminical mysteries, and equivalent among the Hindoos to the tetragrammaton of the Jews.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
As Egyptian roots seldom exceeded three letters, there was no need for triliteral phonograms to spell them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
The typical Coptic root thus became biliteral rather than triliteral, and the verb, by means of periphrases, developed tenses of remarkable precision.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
“The great immutable words preceded by the triliteral syllable and followed by the gayatri, which consists of three measures, must be considered as the mouth or principal part of the Veda.”
From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings
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