-glot

a combining form with the meanings “having a tongue,” “speaking, writing, or written in a language” of the kind or number specified by the initial element:
polyglot.

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Origin of -glot¹

< Greek ( Attic ) -glottos -tongued, adj. derivative of glôtta tongue; glotto-

Polyglot, pol′i-glot, adj. having or containing many languages.

The aperture, or opening between these ligaments, is called the glot´tis, or chink of the glottis.

Artistic faience was made at Sceaux for about forty-five years previous to 1795, by Chapelle and Glot successively.

Epiglottis, ep-i-glot′is, n. the cartilage at the root of the tongue that partly closes the aperture of the larynx.

Glot' tis, the opening between the vocal cords, or the mouth of the windpipe.

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