English

tritransitive

From tri- + transitive.

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

Proto-Italic *tri- ‘three, tri-’

English tri-

Latin eō ‘to go’

Latin trāns ‘across’

Latin trānsitus ‘passage, crossing’

Latin trānsitīvus ‘transiting’

Today it means

adj Of or relating to a class of verbs or constructions which take three objects.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / tritransitive