lingo

See also: Lingo and lìn-gò͘

English

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“language”) + -o (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡəʊ̯/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡoʊ̯/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
• Hyphenation: lin‧go

Noun

lingo (countable and uncountable, plural lingos or lingoes)

1. (informal) Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.
   • 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 47:

     [...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.

   • 1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 327:

     "You see, ma'am, I can't divest myself of my professional lingo," observed Mr. Banks.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.

2. (Australian Aboriginal) An Aboriginal language.
   • 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77:

     The huntsman spoke Davey’s lingo.

   • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 105:

     Granny Ava was the link: the last heathen of the family to speak the lingo fluently, before the Church waltzed in and jammed the Lord's Prayer in Granny Ruth's twelve-year-old mouth instead.

Derived terms

• cyberlingo
• diner lingo
• diplolingo
• DoggoLingo
• kanto lingo

Translations

language peculiar to a particular group or region — see also jargon

• Catalan: argot (ca) m
• Dutch: jargon (nl) n
• French: jargon (fr) m
• German: Jargon (de) m
• Ido: linguo (io)
• Indonesian: lingo, bahasa lingo
• Italian: gergo (it) m
• Polish: żargon (pl) m, (rare) narzecze (pl) n
• Portuguese: jargão (pt) m
• Russian: жарго́н (ru) m (žargón)
• Sicilian: parrata (scn) f, calata f
• Spanish: jerga (es) f, germanía (es) f, argot (es) m
• Turkish: (linguistics) altdil, meslek dili
• Ukrainian: жарго́н (uk) m (žarhón)

Anagrams

• log in, Login, longi, login, long i, Olgin, Ligon, ligno-, log-in, Loing

Central Bikol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈŋoʔ/ [l̪iˈŋoʔ]
• Hyphenation: li‧ngo

Noun

lingô (Basahan spelling ᜎᜒᜅᜓ)

1. stiff neck

   Grabe an lingo pakamata ko sa higdaan.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English lingo.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈliŋo/ [ˈli.ŋo]
• Rhymes: -iŋo
• Syllabification: li‧ngo

Noun

lingo (plural lingo-lingo)

1. (linguistics) lingo

Synonyms

• bahasa lingo

Derived terms

• bahasa lingo

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪˈŋo/ [lɪˈŋo]
• Hyphenation: li‧ngo

Noun

lingó

1. disoriented; distracted; scatterbrained

   Synonyms: mababaligo, maguguluan

2. (slang) drugged; high; intoxicated; stoned; dispersed

   Synonyms: bangag, langu, makadroga, makashabu

Derived terms

• lingo-lingo
• malilingo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *lingō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ-. Cognate with Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem) and English lick.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlɪŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliŋ.ɡo]

Verb

lingō (present infinitive lingere, perfect active līnxī, supine līnctum); third conjugation

1. to lick (up)

   Synonym: lambō

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata III.96:

     Lingis, non futuis meam puellam.

     You lick, but do not fuck my girl.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of lingō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	lingō		lingis		lingit		lingimus		lingitis		lingunt
	imperfect	lingēbam		lingēbās		lingēbat		lingēbāmus		lingēbātis		lingēbant
	future	lingam		lingēs		linget		lingēmus		lingētis		lingent
	perfect	līnxī		līnxistī		līnxit		līnximus		līnxistis		līnxērunt, līnxēre
	pluperfect	līnxeram		līnxerās		līnxerat		līnxerāmus		līnxerātis		līnxerant
	future perfect	līnxerō		līnxeris		līnxerit		līnxerimus		līnxeritis		līnxerint
passive	present	lingor		lingeris, lingere		lingitur		lingimur		lingiminī		linguntur
	imperfect	lingēbar		lingēbāris, lingēbāre		lingēbātur		lingēbāmur		lingēbāminī		lingēbantur
	future	lingar		lingēris, lingēre		lingētur		lingēmur		lingēminī		lingentur
	perfect	līnctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	līnctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	līnctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	lingam		lingās		lingat		lingāmus		lingātis		lingant
	imperfect	lingerem		lingerēs		lingeret		lingerēmus		lingerētis		lingerent
	perfect	līnxerim		līnxerīs		līnxerit		līnxerīmus		līnxerītis		līnxerint
	pluperfect	līnxissem		līnxissēs		līnxisset		līnxissēmus		līnxissētis		līnxissent
passive	present	lingar		lingāris, lingāre		lingātur		lingāmur		lingāminī		lingantur
	imperfect	lingerer		lingerēris, lingerēre		lingerētur		lingerēmur		lingerēminī		lingerentur
	perfect	līnctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	līnctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		linge		—		—		lingite		—
	future	—		lingitō		lingitō		—		lingitōte		linguntō
passive	present	—		lingere		—		—		lingiminī		—
	future	—		lingitor		lingitor		—		—		linguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		lingere			lingī			lingēns			—
future		līnctūrum esse			līnctum īrī			līnctūrus			lingendus, lingundus
perfect		līnxisse			līnctum esse			—			līnctus
future perfect		—			līnctum fore			—			—
perfect potential		līnctūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		lingendī		lingendō		lingendum		lingendō		līnctum		līnctū

Derived terms

• cunnilingus
• dēlingō
• līnctus

Related terms

• lingua (possibly in part)

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: linghere
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: alingu, alindziri, lingu
  • Romanian: linge, lingere
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: lingere, lignere
  • Sicilian: lìngiri
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: lenzi
  • Romansh: lescher

Through Vulgar *liccāre, either from a frequentative *lingicāre or borrowed from Frankish *likkōn (which instead could've influenced the former):

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: leccare
  • Neapolitan: liccà
  • Sicilian: liccari, ⇒ alliccari, aḍḍiccari
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: lecâ
  • Romansh: lichar, litgar
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: leccà
  • Piedmontese: lechè
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: lecar, lechar
  • Old French: lekier, lescher, lechier, lecher
    • Middle French: lescher, lecher
      • French: lécher
    • Norman: litchi (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: lechen
      • English: lech

References

• “lingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lingo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lingo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /liˈŋo/ [lɪˈŋo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: li‧ngo

Noun

lingó (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜅᜓ)

1. assassination; treacherous killing

   Synonym: pang-aasesino

Derived terms

• manlilingo
• panlilingo

Anagrams

• ngilo, Liong, ilong