trilingual

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ lingual.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl, -ɪŋɡjuəl

Adjective

trilingual (comparative more trilingual, superlative most trilingual)

1. Able to read or speak three languages.

   Hypernym: multilingual

2. Expressed or written in three languages.

   Hypernym: multilingual

Derived terms

• trilingualism
• trilingually

 

Translations

able to read or speak three languages

• Catalan: trilingüe m or f
• Czech: trojjazyčný
• Danish: tresproget
• Dutch: drietalig (nl)
• Faroese: trímæltur
• Finnish: kolmikielinen
• French: trilingue (fr) m or f
• Galician: trilingüe m or f
• German: dreisprachig (de), trilingual (de)
• Icelandic: þrítyngdur
• Interlingua: trilingue
• Macedonian: трија́зичен m (trijázičen)
• Polish: trójjęzyczny (pl), trzyjęzyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: trilingue m or f, trilingue m or f
• Russian: трёхязычный (trjóxjazyčnyj), трёхъязы́чный (ru) (trjoxʺjazýčnyj)
• Slovak: trojjazyčný
• Spanish: trilingüe (es)
• Swedish: trespråkig (sv)
• Ukrainian: трьохмо́вний (trʹoxmóvnyj)

expressed or written in three languages

• Bulgarian: триезичен (triezičen)
• Catalan: trilingüe m or f
• Czech: trojjazyčný
• Danish: tresproget
• Dutch: drietalig (nl)
• Faroese: trímæltur
• Finnish: kolmikielinen
• French: trilingue (fr) m or f
• Galician: trilingüe m or f
• German: dreisprachig (de), trilingual (de)
• Hungarian: háromnyelvű (hu)
• Icelandic: þrítyngdur
• Interlingua: trilingue
• Macedonian: трија́зичен m (trijázičen)
• Polish: trójjęzyczny (pl), trzyjęzyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: trilingue m or f, trilingue m
• Russian: трёхъязы́чный (ru) (trjoxʺjazýčnyj)
• Slovak: trojjazyčný
• Spanish: trilingüe (es)
• Ukrainian: трьохмо́вний (trʹoxmóvnyj)

Noun

trilingual (plural trilinguals)

1. A person who speaks three languages.
   • 1891, Claude Reignier Conder, The Lycian Language, page 616:

     There were no doubt Turanians or Mongols in Media whose language we know from the great trilinguals of Darius, but the early kings of the Medes had Aryan names, as had many other chiefs whom the Assyrians encountered.

Translations

trilingual

• Dutch: drietalige (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: trilingvulo

See also

• monolingual
• bilingual
• quadrilingual
• multilingual
• polyglot