interlingual

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ lingual

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

Adjective

interlingual (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, translation studies) Spanning multiple languages; having a multilingual flair or quality.
   • 2004, Wolfram Wilss, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 9:

     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?

Antonyms

• intralingual

Derived terms

• interlingual machine translation
• interlingualism

Translations

spanning multiple languages

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: interlinguaal (nl)
• Finnish: kieltenvälinen
• Georgian: ენათშორისი (enatšorisi)