Translingual

Quick meaning: Translingual is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Existing in multiple languages.

Meaning

(linguistics) Existing in multiple languages.

More Meanings

1. Having the same meaning in many languages.
2. (of a phrase) Containing words of multiple languages.
3. (translation studies) Operating between different languages.
4. (medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongue.
5. A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages.

Example Sentences

Darien can make translingual jokes

No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.

Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.

You must establish that a translingual approach is rhetorically justified, critically relevant, and communicates ideas with clarity.

Word Forms

• translinguals

Synonyms for translingual

Depending on context, synonyms include transglossal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interlingual, crosslinguistic, polylingual, panlingual, polylectal, multilanguage.

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