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bilingual, a.|baɪˈlɪŋgwəl|
[f. L. bilingu-is speaking two languages (f. bi- two + lingua tongue, language) + -al1.]
1. a. Having, or characterized by two languages.
1862Ansted Channel Isl. 543 A constitution of bilingual islands. 1871Earle Philol. §20 Cock-boat is probably a bilingual compound.
b. In extended use: speaking two forms of the same language.
1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Diff. iii. 97 In London, many waitresses and shop assistants are bi-lingual. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 997/2 He's bilingual—speaks both English and American.
c. As n., one who can speak two languages.
1949Archivum Linguisticum I. 155 ‘Foreign accent’ in the speech of bilinguals. 1959J. C. Catford in Quirk & Smith Teaching of English vi. 164 The teaching of English or of any language as a foreign language may be described as a process of creating bilinguals.
2. spec. Of inscriptions, etc.: Written or inscribed simultaneously in parallel versions in two different languages. Also quasi-n.
1845Proc. Philol. Soc. I. 193 The bilingual inscriptions furnish the meanings of a certain number of Lycian words. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxxiv. IV. 352 The inscriptions were bilingual, in Assyrian characters as well as Greek. 1869Baldwin Preh. Nations viii. (1877) 340 The bilingual stone of Thugga. 1881Athenæum 1 Oct. 433/3 Our bilinguals are as yet scanty.
Hence biˈlingually adv., in two languages. So biˈlinguar a. = bilingual. biˈlinguist, one who speaks two languages. biˈlinguous a. = bilingual.
1871Earle Philol. §77 Not an unfrequent thing in Chaucer for a line to contain a single fact bilingually repeated. 1839Fraser's Mag. XX. 202 The bilinguar monument of Rosetta. 1884Pall Mall G. 4 Jan. 3/1 A genuine bilinguist is as rare a prodigy as a two-headed calf. 1730Bailey Bilinguous ; (whence also in mod. Dicts.). |