bilinguis

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English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin bilinguis (“double-tongued”).

Adjective

bilinguis (not comparable)

  1. Double-tongued, deceiving.
  2. (law, historical) A jury made up partly of natives and partly of foreigners.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Parasynthetic compound formed of bis (“twice, in two ways”) +‎ lingua (“tongue”) +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bilinguis (neuter bilingue); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. Double-tongued, two-tongued; speaking two languages; having two tongues.
  2. Hypocritical, deceitful, false, treacherous.
  3. (of a story or tale) Having a double meaning; allegorical.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative bilinguis bilingue bilinguēs bilinguia
Genitive bilinguis bilinguium
Dative bilinguī bilinguibus
Accusative bilinguem bilingue bilinguēs
bilinguīs 		bilinguia
Ablative bilinguī bilinguibus
Vocative bilinguis bilingue bilinguēs bilinguia

Descendants

References

  • “bilinguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “bilinguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bilinguis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • bilinguis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Virgil's Aeneid, by Virgil, Allyn and Bacon: 1904, page 197, 372
  • 1728, Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
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