interlingua

American  

[in-ter-ling-gwuh] / ˌɪn tərˈlɪŋ gwə /

noun

1. an interlanguage.

2. (initial capital letter) an artificial language developed between 1924 and 1951, based primarily upon the Romance languages, and intended mainly as a common international language for scientists.

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interlingua British  

/ ˌɪntəˈlɪŋɡwə /

noun

1. (usually capital) an artificial language based on words common to English and the Romance languages

2. any artificial language used to represent the meaning of natural languages, as for purposes of machine translation

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Etymology

Origin of interlingua

1920–25; < Italian. See inter-, lingua

Example Sentences

So he has adopted a kind of baseball interlingua.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Why not, say, Nov-Esperanto, or Ido, or Interlingua?"

From Project Gutenberg

And they were canny enough to use an old form of Interlingua; somewhere they’d met men before.

From Project Gutenberg

“That’s a highly inflected version of early Interlingua, Captain,” Mannion said.

From Project Gutenberg

“Try translating into old Interlingua, adding their sound changes, and then feeding their own rise-and-fall routine to it,” I said.

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