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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French langue. Doublet of lingua and tongue.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
langue (uncountable)
- (linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
Antonyms[edit]
- (language in use): parole
Anagrams[edit]
Bourguignon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
langue f (plural langues)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French langue, from Old French langue, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”)..
See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman laungue, Gallo lenghe, Picard lingke, Bourguignon laingue, Franco-Provençal lengoua, Occitan lenga, Corsican lingua.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
langue f (plural langues)
- (anatomy) tongue
- la langue dans la bouche
- the tongue in the mouth
- (linguistics) language (system of communication using written or spoken words)
- la langue maternelle
- the mother tongue, native language
- une langue étrangère
- a foreign language
- Elle parle trois langues.
- She speaks three languages.
- faire parler la langue française— Bertrand Barère
- to make speak the French language
Derived terms[edit]
- avoir la langue bien pendue
- avoir un cheveu sur la langue
- donner sa langue au chat
- état de langue
- fait de langue
- langue A
- langue B
- langue C
- langue cible
- langue construite
- langue de bœuf
- langue de bois
- langue de Camões
- langue de Cervantes
- langue de chat
- langue de départ
- langue de Molière
- langue de Pouchkine
- langue de Shakespeare
- langue de si
- langue de Tolstoï
- langue de travail
- langue de Vondel
- langue des signes
- langue d’arrivée
- langue d’oc
- langue d’oïl
- langue étrangère
- langue maternelle
- langue morte
- langue reconstruite
- langue romane
- langue source
- langue verte
- langue vivante
- langue vocale
- mauvaise langue
- ne pas avoir sa langue dans sa poche
- prendre langue
- registre de langue
- sur le bout de la langue
- tenir sa langue
- tirer la langue
- tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche
- tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche
Related terms[edit]
Related terms
Descendants[edit]
- Haitian Creole: lang
- Karipúna Creole French: lang
- Louisiana Creole: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long
- Seychellois Creole: lalang
- → English: langue
Further reading[edit]
- “langue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
langue
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
languē
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French langue, from Latin lingua.
Noun[edit]
langue f (plural langues)
Derived terms[edit]
- Middle French: langue de cerf
Descendants[edit]
- French: langue (see there for further descendants)
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French langue, from Latin lingua.
Noun[edit]
langue f (plural langues)
Derived terms[edit]
- langue dé belle-méthe (“mother-in-law's tongue”) (plant)
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
langue oblique singular, f (oblique plural langues, nominative singular langue, nominative plural langues)
Synonyms[edit]
- (language): language
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: langue
- French: langue (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: laungue
- Picard: lingue
- Walloon: linwe
Picard[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French langue, from Latin lingua.
Noun[edit]
langue f (plural langues)
Sango[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French langue (“language”).
Noun[edit]
langue
Slovak[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
langue f (indeclinable)
Further reading[edit]
- “langue”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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