translingual
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
Adjective
[edit]translingual (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Existing in multiple languages.
- 1994, Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan, editor, English Comedy:
- The nose's comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in translingual games.
- Having the same meaning in many languages.
- No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
- (of a phrase) Containing words of multiple languages.
- 1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise:
- Darien can make translingual jokes
- (translation studies) Operating between different languages.
- 1986, James S. Holmes, Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies:
- 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" . .
- (medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongue.
- Synonym: transglossal
- 1985, Hech, Welter & DeSimone, Chemical Senses:
- Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.
Coordinate terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]existing in multiple languages
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Noun
[edit]translingual (plural translinguals)
- A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages.
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