lingua

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Contents 1 Galician 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 2 Interlingua 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Related terms 3 Italian 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Etymology 3.3 Noun 3.3.1 Related terms 4 Latin 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Noun 4.3.1 Inflection 4.3.2 Descendants 5 Sicilian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun

[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From Latin lingua.

[edit] Noun

lingua f. (plural linguas)

1. language
2. tongue

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[edit] Interlingua

[edit] Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

1. A tongue.
2. A language.

[edit] Related terms

• linguage
• linguista
• linguistica

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[edit] Italian

Wikipedia ^it

[edit] Pronunciation

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

[edit] Etymology

From Latin lingua (“‘tongue, language’”).

[edit] Noun

lingua f. (plural lingue)

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

[edit] Related terms

• lingua artificiale
• linguaccia
• lingua di gatto
• linguaggio
• linguale
• linguata
• linguetta
• linguiforme
• linguista
• linguistica
• linguina
• scioglilingua
• slinguare

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

Old Latin dingua < Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /língʷa/

[edit] Noun

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

[edit] Inflection

First declension (1).

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

[edit] Descendants

Aromanian: limbã Asturian: llingua Catalan: llengua Esperanto: lingvo French: langue Galician: linguaxe Istro-Romanian: limbe Italian: lingua

Logudorese Sardinian: limba Megleno-Romanian: limbă Mirandese: lhéngua Occitan: lenga Portuguese: língua Romanian: limbă Sicilian: lingua Spanish: lengua

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[edit] Sicilian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin lingua (“‘tongue, language’”).

[edit] Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)

1. A tongue.
2. A language.