quadriliteral

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The system of the quadriliteral verb in Akkadian.

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  1. Consisting of four letters, or of only four constant letters or consonants.
  2. A word or a root consisting of four letters or containing four consonants. Arabick roots are as universally [i. e., almost universally] triliteral. … If we suppose ten thousand of them (without reckoning quadriliterals) to exist, and each of them to admit only five variations, … even then a perfect Arabick dictionary ought to contain fifty thousand words. Sir W. Jones, Asiatic Dissertations, I. 125.

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  • The system of the quadriliteral verb in Akkadian. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
  • 1) or a quadriliteral Fásilah (i. —  Arabian nights. English
  • It is technically called "Haukalah" and "Haulakah," words in the third conjugation of increased triliterals, corresponding with the quadriliteral radicals and possessing the peculiar power of Kasr = abbreviation. —  Arabian nights. English
  • All other feet, primary or secondary, consist necessarily of seven letters, as they contain a triliteral Watad (see supra i. 2) with either two biliteral Sabab khafíf (i. 1) or a quadriliteral Fásilah (i. —  Arabian nights. English
  • If this quadriliteral man had done so much for _them_, (though really, we think, 6s. 8d. might have settled his claim,) what, says Fire, setting her arms a-kimbo, would they do for _him_? —  Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
 

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  1. from Latin quattuor (quadri-), = English four, + littera, litera, letter: see literal.
 

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