translingual

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From trans- (“‘across’”), + lingual (“‘having to do with languages or tongues’”), from Latin lingua (“‘tongue’”), + -al, from Latin -alis.

[edit] Adjective

translingual (not comparable)

1. 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. - English Comedy - Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan (eds) - 1994

2. Having the same meaning in many languages.

   No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.

3. (of a phrase) containing words of multiple languages

   Darien can make translingual jokes - Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise - W. Redfern - 1985

4. 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" . . - Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies - James S. Holmes - 1986

5. (medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongue

   Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat. - Chem. Senses - Hech, Welter & DeSimone - 1985