I don't mean multilingual. I mean a word such as bilingual, or trilingual, but one that represents four.
2007-09-05 11:30:14 · 4 answers · asked by m 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
multilingual [Latin] = polyglot [Greek]
multi = poly = many
lingua = glossa = tongue, later used also to mean "language"*
lingual = glot = related to the tongue or languages.
In almost all languages, the word for "language" has the word "tongue" in it, or it is the same word as language.
In Spanish, lengua = both tongue & language.
2007-09-05 15:55:59 · answer #1 · answered by bryan_q 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, but once you get past "trilingual," it's "multilingual."
2007-09-05 11:36:59 · answer #2 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Quadrilingual.
2007-09-05 11:36:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Polyglot ... or smarty pants!
2007-09-05 11:53:01 · answer #4 · answered by Cosimo )O( 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋