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Added 9 October 2026

dialectical

adjective

Latin root: dialecticus Wiktionary

adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about dialectical at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Of or pertaining to dialectic; logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
Synonym of dialectal (“of or pertaining to a dialect”).

Origin

From Latin dialecticus + -al. By surface analysis, dialectic + -al or dialect + -ical.

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