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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromδίγλωττις“two-tongued”
- English todaydiglot
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δίγλωττις (díglōttis, “two-tongued”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) and γλωττίς (glōttís), from γλῶττα (glôtta), secondary form of γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue, language”). di- + -glot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.