The corpus record — Latin

trilinguis

trilinguis · adj

triple-tongued

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Where it lives

Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

trĭlinguis — Lewis & Short

trĭlinguis, e, adj.ter-lingua.

I triple-tongued, having three tongues: ōs (Cerberi), Hor. C. 3, 11, 20: cantus (Hecates), Val. Fl. 7, 184: colla (i. e. serpentis), Prud. Cath. 3, 150. —

II Speaking three tongues or languages: Massilienses (who spoke Greek, Latin, and Gallic), Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 15, 1 fin.: Siculi (because they spoke Greek, Punic, and Latin), App. M. 11, p. 259: ego Hebraeus, Graecus, Latinus: trilinguis, Hier. in Ruf. 3, 6.

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