different between translingual vs translingually

English

Etymology

From trans- (“across”) + lingual (“having to do with languages or tongues”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???w?l

Adjective

translingual (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Existing in multiple languages.
   • 1994, Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan (eds), English Comedy

     The nose's comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in translingual games.

2. Having the same meaning in many languages.

   No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.

3. (of a phrase) containing words of multiple languages
   • 1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise

     Darien can make translingual jokes

4. (translation studies) Operating between different languages
   • 1986, James S. Holmes, Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies

     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" . .

5. (medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongue
   • 1985, Hech, Welter & DeSimone, Chemical Senses

     Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.

Hyponyms

• lingual

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

translingual (plural translinguals)

1. A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages.

English

Etymology

translingual +? -ly

Adverb

translingually (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) In a translingual way.