Meanings
- not comparableDouble-tongued, deceiving.
- historicalnot comparablelawA jury made up partly of natives and partly of foreigners.
Origin
- Latinbilinguis“double-tongued”
- Englishbilinguis
Unadapted borrowing from Latin bilinguis (“double-tongued”).
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