translingual
/tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
translingual adjective: existing in multiple languages.
Adjective
translingual (not comparable)
- 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
- Having the same meaning in many languages.
- No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
- Containing words of multiple languages.
- Darien can make translingual jokes1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise
- 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
- 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
- Synonyms:
- transglossal
Noun
translingual (plural translinguals)
- A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages.
translingual meaning in Tagalog and Arabic
translingual in Tagalog
- existing in multiple languages
- maramihang wika, interlinggwe, translinggwal
translingual in Arabic
- existing in multiple languages
- مُتَعَدِّدُ اللُّغَات mutaʕaddidu l-luḡāt
Synonyms of translingual
Forms of translingual
| plural | translinguals |
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Origin of translingual
From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).
Words formed from translingual
Words that rhyme with translingual
- bilingual
- buccolingual
- decalingual
- lingual
- nonalingual
- octolingual
- pentalingual
- quadrilingual
- sublingual
- ambilingual
- dentilingual
- heptalingual
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- hexalingual
- labiolingual
- multilingual
- polylingual
- prelingual
- quinquelingual
- sesquilingual
- tetralingual
- trilingual
- alveololingual
- anterolingual
- apicolingual
- audiolingual
- axiolingual
- brevilingual
- cervicolingual
- colingual
- collingual
- crosslingual
- distolingual
- dorsolingual
- equilingual
- exolingual
- faciolingual
- fissilingual
- gingivolingual
- heterolingual
- homolingual
- hyolingual
- interlingual
- intralingual
- laterolingual
- matrilingual
- mediolingual
- mesiolingual
- mesolingual
- metrolingual
- midlingual
- monolingual
- omnilingual
- panlingual
- paralingual
- perilingual
- plurilingual
- posterolingual
- postlingual
- protolingual
- retrolingual
Questions about translingual
- What does translingual mean?
- Translingual means existing in multiple languages.
- What is translingual in Tagalog?
- Translingual in Tagalog is maramihang wika, interlinggwe, translinggwal. See Translingual meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is translingual?
- Translingual can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce translingual?
- Translingual is pronounced /tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/.
Words near translingual in the dictionary
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