língua
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See also: lingua
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lingua (“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.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ĩɡwɐ
- Hyphenation: lín‧gua
Noun[edit]
língua f (plural línguas)
- (anatomy) tongue
- language
- Synonym: idioma
- Língua portuguesa
- Portuguese language
- O inglês é a minha segunda língua.
- English is my second language.
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:língua.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ĩɡwɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ĩɡwɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Anatomy
- Portuguese terms with collocations
- Portuguese terms with usage examples