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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?a??æ?.?j?.l?/, /t?a??æ?.?j?.l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?a??æ?.?j?.l?/, /t?a??a??.?j?.l?/

Adjective

triangular (comparative more triangular, superlative most triangular)

1. Shaped like a triangle.
2. Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
3. Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
4. Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.

Synonyms

• threeside, trigonal

Related terms

• triangular harp

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /t?i.??.?u?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /t?i.a?.?u?la?/

Adjective

triangular (masculine and feminine plural triangulars)

1. triangular

Verb

triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, past participle triangulat)

1. to triangulate

Conjugation

Galician

Pronunciation

Adjective

triangular m or f (plural triangulares)

1. triangular, shaped like a triangle
2. having a triangle as a base
3. having three elements or parties

Related terms

• triángulo
• triangularmente

Further reading

• “triangular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin triangul?ris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.??.?u.?la?/
• Hyphenation: tri?an?gu?lar

Adjective

triangular m or f (plural triangulares, comparable)

1. triangular

Verb

triangular (first-person singular present indicative triangulo, past participle triangulado)

1. to triangulate

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?jan?u?la?/, [t??jã?.?u?la?]
• Hyphenation: tri?an?gu?lar

Adjective

triangular (plural triangulares)

1. triangular

Verb

triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, first-person singular preterite triangulé, past participle triangulado)

1. to triangulate

Conjugation

Further reading

• “triangular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?c?lis (“sounding, vocal”), clipping of m?sculus v?c?lis (“vocal muscle”). Doublet of vocal.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vo??ke?.l?s/
• Rhymes: -e?l?s

Noun

vocalis (plural vocales)

1. (anatomy) A triangular band of muscle that is the medial part of the thyroarytenoid muscle, originates in the lamina of the thyroid cartilage, and inserts into the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; it lies parallel with the vocal ligament to which it is adherent and modulates the tension of the true vocal cords.

Translations

References

• “vocalis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?o??ka?.lis/, [u?o??kä?l?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vo?ka.lis/, [v??k??lis]

Etymology 1

From v?x (“a voice, sound, tone”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjective-forming derivational suffix).

Adjective

v?c?lis (neuter v?c?le, adverb v?c?liter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (literally) uttering a voice, having a voice; speaking, sounding, sonorous, speaking, crying, singing, melodious; vocal
2. (transferred sense):
   1. (causative, rare, poetic) making vocal, causing or inspiring speech or song
   2. prophesying

Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Derived terms

• s?mivoc?lis
• v?c?lit?s (noun)
• v?c?liter (adverb)
• v?c?l?s

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun use of the adjective v?c?lis, in elliptical use for littera v?c?lis or l?tera v?c?lis (literally “sounding letter”), a calque of Ancient Greek ?????? (ph?nêen).

Noun

v?c?lis f (genitive v?c?lis); third declension

1. (grammar) vowel

   Synonyms: littera v?c?lis, l?tera v?c?lis

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -?).

Descendants

See also

• c?nson?ns

References

• vocalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vocalis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vocalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vocalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle High German

Etymology

From Latin v?c?lis.

Noun

vocalis f

1. vowel
   • 13th century. In: Seifried Helbling. Herausgegeben und erklärt von Joseph Seemüller, Halle a. S., 1886, p. 237f.:

     Quinque sunt vocales
     A E I O U.
     Diu êrst vocalis ist daz â.
     [...]
     Diu dritt vocalis ist daz î.
     [...]
     Diu fünft vocalis ist daz û.
     [...]

   • 13th century. In: Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts. Von Philipp Wackernagel. Zweiter Band, Leipzig, 1867, p. 209:

     Quinque sunt vocales, | A E I O U. | Diu erst vocalis ist daz a. | [...] | Diu dritt vocalis ist daz i. | [...] | Diu vünft vocalis ist daz u. | [...]

Related terms

• vocales