Etymology

bilinguis

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Today it means: Double-tongued, deceiving. Full definition →

Latin bilinguis
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed frombilinguis“double-tongued”
  2. English todaybilinguis

Unadapted borrowing from Latin bilinguis (“double-tongued”).

Words from the same roots

Latinbilinguis all →

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