Interlingua

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  interlingua \in`ter*lin"gua\, n.
     A language used as an intermediate language in translating
     from a source language to a target language; -- used
     especially in machine translation by computers; as, some
     machine translation systems use Esperanto as an interlingua.
     [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Interlingua
       n : an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary
           international language; based on words common to English
           and the Romance languages