Polyglottal
[PAH-lee-glaht-əl]
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: French, 17th century
1.
Knowing or using several languages.
2.
(Of a book) Having the text translated into several languages.
Examples of Polyglottal in a sentence
"We were grateful to our polyglottal guide, who could translate each of the different local languages into English for us."
"Many readers of T.S. Eliot’s polyglottal poem “The Waste Land” find its array of languages overwhelming."
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