Translingual
Origin
From trans- ("across"), + lingual ("having to do with languages or tongues"), from Latin lingua ("tongue"), + -al, from Latin -alis.
Full definition of translingual
Adjective
translingual
- 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
- Having the same meaning in many languages.No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
- (of a phrase) containing words of multiple languagesDarien can make translingual jokes - Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise - W. Redfern - 1985
- (translation studies) Operating between different languagesThis 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
- (medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongueSimultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat. - Chem. Senses - Hech, Welter & DeSimone - 1985