translingual

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

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

translingual (not comparable)

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

• lingual

translingual (plural translinguals)

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