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translingual en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Existing in multiple languages.
    • 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:
    • 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:
  2. (not-comparable) Having the same meaning in many languages.
    • No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
  3. (not-comparable, of a phrase) Containing words of multiple languages.
    • Darien can make translingual jokes 1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise:
  4. (not-comparable) 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:
  5. (not-comparable) 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:

Coordinates

lingual · panlingual

Deriveds

translingualism · translinguality · translingually

Synonyms

transglossal

Translations (19)

tl translinggwal (existing in multiple languages) · el διαγλωσσικός (existing in multiple languages) · eo translingva (existing in multiple languages) · cy trawsieithol (existing in multiple languages) · tl maramihang wika (existing in multiple languages) · bg междуезиков (existing in multiple languages) · ar مُتَعَدِّدُ اللُّغَات (existing in multiple languages) · pam translinggwal (existing in multiple languages) · pam interlinggwe (existing in multiple languages) · de sprachenübergreifend (existing in multiple languages) · ka ტრანსლინგვური (existing in multiple languages) · es translingüe (existing in multiple languages) · zh 跨语言的 (existing in multiple languages) · tr dillerarası (existing in multiple languages) · tl interlinggwe (existing in multiple languages) · ru межъязыково́й (existing in multiple languages) · zh 跨語言的 /跨语言的 (existing in multiple languages) · pam marakalang amanu (existing in multiple languages) · io translinguala (existing in multiple languages)

translingual en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).

Meanings

  1. A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages.

Forms

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