letteral

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Referring to a type of musical notation used by Shakers, based on letters instead of notes.
  2. Regarding letters of the alphabet.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of literal (“a misprint that affects a letter”).
  2. The name of a letter, such as gy. for the letter G.

Word forms

letteral letterals

Etymology

From letter + -al. The Lojban sense was coined by James Cooke Brown by analogy with numeral.

Related words

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