tricotomía

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τριχοτομία (trikhotomía, “a cutting in three ways”), from τριχῆ (trikhê, “in three ways, triply”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾikotoˈmia/ [t̪ɾi.ko.t̪oˈmi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: tri‧co‧to‧mí‧a

tricotomía f (plural tricotomías)

1. trichotomy

• “tricotomía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024