lingua

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Latin, the tongue.

Noun [edit]

lingua (plural linguae)

  1. (zoology) A tongue.
  2. (zoology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.


Galician [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin lingua.

Noun [edit]

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. language
  2. tongue

Interlingua [edit]

Interlingua Wikipedia has an article on:

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Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun [edit]

lingua (plural linguas)

  1. (anatomy) A tongue.
  2. A language.

Synonyms [edit]

Related terms [edit]


Italian [edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

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Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: [ˈliŋ.ɡwa], X-SAMPA: /"liN.gwa/
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  • Hyphenation: lìn‧gua

Etymology [edit]

From Latin lingua (tongue, language), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Noun [edit]

lingua f (plural lingue)

  1. (anatomy) tongue
  2. language, tongue
  3. strip, tongue (of land)
  4. (in the plural) foreign languages

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Anagrams [edit]


Latin [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Latin *dingua, from Proto-Italic *dn̥χ(u)wā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun [edit]

lingua (genitive linguae); f, first declension

  1. (anatomy) tongue
  2. A speech
  3. An utterance or expression
  4. A language
  5. A dialect, idiom or mode of speech
  6. poetically of animals: voice, note, song, bark etc.
  7. A plant (alternatively called lingulaca)
  8. The reed of the Roman tibiae
  9. A small amount of sth., e.g. "a tongue of land" or "a spoonful"
  10. The short arm of a lever
  11. vocative singular of lingua
  12. ablative singular of lingua

Inflection [edit]

First declension (1).

Number Singular Plural
nominative lingua linguae
genitive linguae linguārum
dative linguae linguīs
accusative linguam linguās
ablative linguā linguīs
vocative lingua linguae

Descendants [edit]


Romansch [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin lingua (tongue, speech, language), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (tongue, speech, language).

Noun [edit]

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) language

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Sicilian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin lingua (tongue, language).

Noun [edit]

lingua f (plural lingui)

  1. A tongue.
  2. A language.