WikiWord

English

Interlingua

/ɪn.tə(ɹ).lɪŋ.ɡwə/ · name

Meaning

  1. an interlanguage
  2. Latino sine flexione, a simplified version of Latin by Giuseppe Peano
  3. A constructed interlanguage based on Romance languages, English, German, Russian and Latin, developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, and first published in 1951.

Etymology / origin

Coined possibly independently multiple times in multiple languages, but modern use derives from the Interlingua word. The word itself comes from Latin inter (“between”) + lingua (“language”).

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