lingua

See also: língua

English

Etymology

Latin lingua (“tongue”).

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Asturian

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f (plural llingües)

1. language
2. tongue

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Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

1. language
2. tongue

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Interlingua

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

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

Synonyms

• (language): linguage

Related terms

• linguage
• linguista
• linguistica

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Italian

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈliŋ.ɡwa]

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• Hyphenation: lìn‧gua

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f (plural lingue)

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

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• i lunga
• langui, languì

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Ladino

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling לינגוה, plural linguas)

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

Synonyms

• lashon

Alternative forms

• lengua

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Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. The change of d- to l- is likely by association with the verb lingō (“lick”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlin.ɡʷa/, [ˈlɪŋ.ɡʷa]

• Audio (classical)

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Noun

lingua f (genitive linguae); 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

Inflection

First declension.

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

Descendants

Descendants

+/- Aromanian: limbã Corsican: lingua Dalmatian: langa, luanga Emilian: längua English: lingua Esperanto: lingvo Franco-Provençal: lengoua Friulian: lenghe Istriot: lèngua, laèngua Istro-Romanian: limbĕ Ligurian: lengoa Logudorese Sardinian: limba Lombard: lengua Megleno-Romanian: limbă Navarro-Aragonese: Aragonese: luenga Neapolitan: lengua Old French: langue Middle French: langue French: langue English: langue Haitian Creole: lang Karipúna Creole French: lang Louisiana Creole French: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long Seychellois Creole: lalang Norman: langue Walloon: linwe Old Italian: lingua Italian: lingua Maltese: lingwa Old Leonese: Asturian: llingua Leonese: llingua Mirandese: lhéngua Old Portuguese: lingua, lengua Fala: lengua Galician: lingua Portuguese: língua Angolar: lunga Annobonese: lunga Guinea-Bissau Creole: lingu, lingua Indo-Portuguese: lingo, légo, leagou Kabuverdianu: lingua Korlai Creole Portuguese: ling Macanese: língu Principense: lunge Old Provençal: lengua Occitan: lenga Old Catalan: Catalan: llengua Old Spanish: lengua Extremaduran: luenga Ladino: lengua / לינגוה Spanish: lengua Chavacano: lenggwa Papiamentu: lenga Piedmontese: lengha Romagnol: lèngva Romanian: limbă Romansch: lieunga Sabir: lingua Sardinian: limba, lingua, limma, linga Sicilian: lingua Tarantino: lenga Venetian: łéngua

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *dn̥χ(u)wā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”).

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) language

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) linguatg
• (Puter, Vallader, poetic) linguach
• (poetic) favella

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Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“tongue, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *dn̥χ(u)wā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)

1. tongue
2. language