transliterally

English

Etymology

transliteral +‎ -ly

Adverb

transliterally (not comparable)

  1. (rare) In a transliteral (more than literal, beyond literal) way; more than literally.
    • 2001, Edda Weigand, ‎Marcelo Dascal, Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction →ISBN, page 143:
      An ironic utterance may be successful at the locutionary level if it is properly understood transliterally, but fails at the perlocutionary level if the conversational reaction does not respect the 'literal complicity' of the ironic game.
  2. (rare) In a way that exhibits simple transliteration; in a transliteral (transliterating) way; (that is,) being (or having been) transliterated.
    • 1996, Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, a Biography, →ISBN, page 7:
      “Taneic ," "Sabaneeff" and others preferred to be spelled abroad this way, rather than transliterally Tanyeyev or Sabanyeyev.
    • 2008, A Feminist Rhetorical Translating of the "Rhetoric" →ISBN, page 61:
      Likewise, ποιητικῆς[sic] [transliterally poetikes] is not an untranslatable term.

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