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Definition of Triptote
1. n. A noun having three cases only.
Definition of Triptote
1. Noun. (grammar) In grammar, a noun which has only three cases. In Modern Standard Arabic, nouns belong to triptotes or diptotes, or can be indeclinable. ¹
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Definition of Triptote
1. a word used in three cases only [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triptote
Literary usage of Triptote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arabic Grammar: Paradigms, Literature, Exercises and Glossary by Albert Socin, Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy (1895)
"The following are the case-endings of the triptote a. noun: Nom. sing. _1_ un, Gen.
sing. _ in, Ace. sing. ^ I — an. ..."
2. General Principles of the Structure of Language by James Byrne (1892)
"... have the article, i: is declined as a triptote, but does not take the final
n in the singular or in the pluralis sanus feminine (74, Ex. 4, 7, 11, 12, ..."
3. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology (1877)
"... but by the fact, which I shall endeavour to substantiate, that the apparently
triptote form is really a note of the plural number. ..."
4. A Grammar of the Arabic Language by Carl Paul Caspari, William Wright, William Robertson Smith, Michael Jan de Goeje (1896)
"Adjectives of the form ^j^Já are all triptote, their fern, being formed by
adding »_ (§ 295, rem. a) ; as o^o*. f- ^ij^, naked. REM. a. ..."
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