Meanings
- not comparableUsing three scripts (especially of monolingual text).
Coordinate term: biscript
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A cognitive shift particular to the Late Period, changing the nature of the triscript system beyond recognition, was the fact that the palaeographies and orthographies of demotic became so distinct from their hieratic palaeographic predecessors that they were no longer mutually comprehensible.²¹³
2021 December 6, Edward O. D. Love, Script Switching in Roman Egypt: Case Studies in Script Conventions, Domains, Shift, and Obsolescence from Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Old Coptic Manuscripts (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBNSynonyms: triscriptal, triscriptual
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveUsing three scripts (especially of monolingual text).
Origin
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triscript. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triscript
“triscript.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triscript. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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