bilingual

bilingual
bilingual (adj.) 1818, from BI- (Cf. bi-) + LINGUAL (Cf. lingual). Latin bilinguis meant literally "two-tongued," and, figuratively, "speaking a jumble of languages," also "double-tongued, hypocritical, false."

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