Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesExisting in multiple languages.
You must establish that a translingual approach is rhetorically justified, critically relevant, and communicates ideas with clarity.
2022, Stephanie Renée Payne, “Translingual (Code-meshed) Approach to Writing [Student Guide]”, in University of Southern California, page 11 more example
The nose's comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in translingual games.
1994, Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan, editor, English Comedy - not comparableHaving the same meaning in many languages.
No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
- not comparableContaining words of multiple languages.
Darien can make translingual jokes
1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise - not comparablehuman sciencesOperating between different languages.
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" . .
1986, James S. Holmes, Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies - not comparablemedicineOccurring or being measured across the tongue.
Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.
1985, Hech, Welter & DeSimone, Chemical SensesSynonyms: transglossal
plural translinguals
- A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOccurring or being measured across the tongue.
Origin
From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مُتَعَدِّدُ اللُّغَات
- مُتَعَدِّدُ اللُّغَات (mutaʕaddidu l-luḡāt)existing in multiple languages
Bulgarian междуезиков
- междуезиков (mežduezikov)existing in multiple languages
Chinese 跨語言的 /跨语言的, 跨语言的
- 跨語言的 /跨语言的existing in multiple languages
- 跨语言的 (kuà yǔyán de)existing in multiple languages
Esperanto translingva
- translingvaexisting in multiple languages
German sprachenübergreifend
- sprachenübergreifendexisting in multiple languages
Greek διαγλωσσικός
- διαγλωσσικός (diaglossikós)existing in multiple languages
Polish międzyjęzykowy
- międzyjęzykowyexisting in multiple languages
Russian межъязыково́й
- межъязыково́й (mežʺjazykovój)existing in multiple languages
Spanish translingüe
- translingüeexisting in multiple languages
Tagalog maramihang wika, interlinggwe
- maramihang wikaexisting in multiple languages
- interlinggweexisting in multiple languages
- translinggwalexisting in multiple languages
Turkish dillerarası
- dillerarasıexisting in multiple languages
Welsh trawsieithol
- trawsieitholexisting in multiple languages
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with translingual
Cite this entry
translingual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/translingual
“translingual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/translingual. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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