Etymograph

English

trigraph

From tri- + -graph.

A compound of tri- + -graph

Proto-Indo-European *tri- ‘three, threefold’

Proto-Italic *tri- ‘three, tri-’

English tri-

Today it means

noun A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “trigraph”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / trigraph