translingual

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

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

translingual (not comparable)

1. (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.

   • 2022, Stephanie Renée Payne, “Translingual (Code-meshed) Approach to Writing [Student Guide]”, in University of Southern California‎^[1], page 1:

     You must establish that a translingual approach is rhetorically justified, critically relevant, and communicates ideas with clarity.

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.
   • 1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise:

     Darien can make translingual jokes

4. (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" . .

6. (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.

translingual (plural translinguals)

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