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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trilingual
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
trilingual (=speaking three languages)
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▪ Varro seems to have stated that in his time Massalia was trilingual, the two foreign languages being of course Latin and Celtic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trilingual

Trilingual \Tri*lin"gual\, a. [L. trilinguis; tri- (see Tri-) + lingua tongue, language. See Lingual.] Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages.

The much-noted Rosetta stone . . . bears upon its surface a trilingual inscription.
--I. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trilingual

"involving three languages," 1834, from tri- + Latin lingua "language," literally "tongue" (see lingual). Latin trilinguis meant "triple-tongued," and was used of Cerberus.

Wiktionary
trilingual

a. 1 Able to read or speak three languages. 2 expressed or written in three languages. n. A trilingual person.

WordNet
trilingual

adj. using or knowing three languages; "trilingual speakers"

Usage examples of "trilingual".

The Utopian tongue might well present a more spacious coalescence, and hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already presents, a profuse vocabulary into which have been cast a dozen once separate tongues, superposed and then welded together through bilingual and trilingual compromises.