língua

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See also: lingua

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese lingua, lingoa, lengua, lengoa (“tongue, language”), from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”).

Cognate with Galician lingua, Spanish lengua, Catalan llengua, Occitan lenga, French langue, Italian lingua and Romanian limbă.

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Noun[edit]

língua f (plural línguas)

  1. (anatomy) tongue
  2. language

Quotations[edit]

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:língua.

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