trigraph en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English trigraph From tri- + -graph.
Meanings
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A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
The letter “i” is pronounced as /aɪ/ when followed by the trigraph “ght”, as in right /raɪt/.
Then, practice reading fluency sentences together that contain words with trigraphs and other mastered words.
2023 December 6, Sarah Forst, “How to Teach Trigraphs DGE & TCH”, in The Designer Teacher:
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A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.
1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| trigraphs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
ligature · heptagraph · triphthong · tetragraph · monophthong · hexagraph · digraph · pentagraph · octagraph · diphthong
Translations (11)
pl trójznak (sequence of three letters) · fr trigramme (sequence of three letters) · fi kolmoiskirjain (sequence of three letters) · hu trigráf (sequence of three letters) · fi trigrafi (sequence of three letters) · cs trigraf (sequence of three letters) · ru тригра́ф (sequence of three letters) · de Trigraph (sequence of three letters) · pl trigraf (sequence of three letters) · ro trigraf (sequence of three letters) · pt trígrafo (sequence of three letters)