Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bilinguis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bilin-guis
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Double-tongued, deceiving.

adj

A jury made up partly of natives and partly of foreigners.

Etymology

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

Questions

What does bilinguis mean?: Double-tongued, deceiving.
Where does bilinguis come from?: Unadapted borrowing from Latin bilinguis (“double-tongued”).

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