bilinguis
English
Etymology
From Latin bilinguis (“double-tongued”), from bis (“twice, in two ways”) + lingua (“tongue”).
Adjective
bilinguis (not comparable)
- double-tongued, deceiving.
- (law, historical) A jury made up partly of natives and partly of foreigners.
Latin
Alternative forms
- bilinguus
Etymology
Parasynthetic compound formed of bis (“twice, in two ways”) + lingua (“tongue”) + -is.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /biˈlin.ɡʷis/, [bɪˈlʲɪŋɡʷɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /biˈlin.ɡwis/, [biˈliŋɡwis]
Adjective
bilinguis (neuter bilingue); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Double-tongued, two-tongued; speaking two languages; having two tongues.
- Hypocritical, deceitful, false, treacherous.
- (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
- Asturian: billingüe
- Catalan: bilingüe
- English: bilinguis
- French: bilingue
- → Norwegian: bilingv
- → Romanian: bilingv
- Galician: bilingüe
- Hungarian: bilingvis
- Italian: bilingue
- Norman: bilîngue
- Portuguese: bilingue
- Spanish: bilingüe
- ⇒ English: bilingual, bi-lingual
- → Japanese: バイリンガル (bairingaru)
- → Polish: bilingwalny
- ⇒ Georgian: ბილინგვური (bilingvuri)
- ⇒ German: bilingual
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: bilingvalan / билингвалан
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.