bisulcilingua

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== Latin == === Etymology === Compound of bisulcus (“two-furrowed”) +‎ lingua (“tongue”) thus literally, “having a forked tongue”. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɪ.sʊɫ.kɪˈlɪŋ.ɡʷa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [bi.s̬ul̠ʲ.t͡ʃiˈliŋ.ɡʷa] === Adjective === bisulcilingua (Plautine, hapax legomenon) hypocritical, deceitful ==== Declension ==== First-declension adjective found only in the feminine. === Further reading === “bisulcilingua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press