translingual
nounEtymology From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).
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A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages.
translingual
adj/tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
Etymology From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Existing in multiple languages.
- The nose's comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in translingual games.1994, Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan, editor, English Comedy:
- You must establish that a translingual approach is rhetorically justified, critically relevant, and communicates ideas with clarity.2022, Stephanie Renée Payne, “Translingual (Code-meshed) Approach to Writing [Student Guide]”, in University of Southern California, page 1:
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Having the same meaning in many languages.
- No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
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Of a phrase Containing words of multiple languages.
- Darien can make translingual jokes1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Translation studies Operating between different languages.
- This receiver, as translator, then performs a kind of "translingual transfer" to encode in a second language a new message that is intended to "mean the same" . .1986, James S. Holmes, Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies:
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Medicine, Sciences Occurring or being measured across the tongue.
- Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.1985, Hech, Welter & DeSimone, Chemical Senses:
- Derived terms
- translingualism, translinguality, translingually
- Coordinate terms
- lingual, panlingual