Meanings
adjectiveinterlingual (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesSpanning multiple languages; having a multilingual flair or quality.
Why is translation suitable as a subject-matter of academic study, or to raise this question in a somewhat different and perhaps more challenging form: What distinguishes everyday, intralingual communication from interlingual, "exceptional" communication?
2004, Wolfram Wilss, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 9
Synonyms & antonyms
Opposite
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
- Proto-Italic*n̥ter
- Latininter
- Latininter-
- Englishinter-
- Proto-Indo-European*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
- Proto-Italic*dn̥ɣwā
- Latindingua
- Latinlingua
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinlinguāli
- Englishlingual
- Englishinterlingual
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 語際 /语际
- 語際 /语际 (yǔjì)spanning multiple languages
Dutch interlinguaal
- interlinguaalspanning multiple languages
Esperanto interlingva
- interlingvaspanning multiple languages
Finnish kieltenvälinen
- kieltenvälinenspanning multiple languages
French interlingual
- interlingualspanning multiple languages
German interlingual
- interlingualspanning multiple languages
Russian межъязыковой
- межъязыковой (mežjazykovoj)spanning multiple languages
Slovak medzijazykový
- medzijazykovýspanning multiple languages
Spanish interlingüe
- interlingüespanning multiple languages
Swedish tvärspråklig
- tvärspråkligspanning multiple languages
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with interlingual
bilingualmultilinguallingualsublingualmonolingualtrilingualunilingualalveololingualambilingualanterolingualapicolingualaudiolingualaxiolingualbrevilingualbuccolingualcervicolingualcolingualcrosslingualdecalingualdentilingualdistolingualdorsolingualequilingualexolingual
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
interlingual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interlingual
MLA
“interlingual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interlingual. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interlingual,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interlingual.
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