lingua

See also: língua

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lingua (“tongue”). Doublet of tongue.

Noun

lingua (plural linguae)

1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lingua in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Gaulin, nilgau

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

1. tongue
2. language

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese língua. Cognates with Kabuverdianu lingua.

Noun

lingua

1. tongue
2. language

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

1. tongue
2. language

Synonyms

• (language): linguage

Related terms

• linguage
• linguista
• linguistica

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈliŋ.ɡwa]

• Audio

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• Audio

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• Hyphenation: lìn‧gua

Noun

lingua f (plural lingue)

1. tongue
2. language, tongue
3. strip, tongue (of land)
4. (in the plural) foreign languages
5. the square horn of an anvil
6. (especially in plural) A type of Italian flatbread

Related terms

Terms related to lingua

• lingua artificiale
• linguaccia
• lingua di gatto
• linguaggio
• linguale

• linguata
• linguetta
• linguiforme
• linguina

• linguista
• linguistica
• scioglilingua
• slinguare

Anagrams

• i lunga
• langui, languì

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese língua.

Noun

lingua

1. tongue
2. language

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Ladino

Alternative forms

• lengua

Etymology

From Latin lingua, from Old Latin *dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Noun

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

1. tongue
2. (linguistics) language

Synonyms

• lashon

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Latin

Alternative forms

• lingva

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]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlin.ɡwa/, [ˈliŋ.ɡwa]

• Audio (classical)

  (file)

Noun

lingua f (genitive linguae); first declension

1. tongue
2. A speech
3. An utterance or expression
4. A language
5. A dialect, idiom or mode of speech
6. (poetic, of animals) voice, note, song, bark etc.
7. A kind of plant (alternatively called lingulāca)
8. The reed of the Roman tibiae
9. A small amount of something, e.g. "a tongue of land" or "a spoonful"
10. The short arm of a lever

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lingua	linguae
Genitive	linguae	linguārum
Dative	linguae	linguīs
Accusative	linguam	linguās
Ablative	linguā	linguīs
Vocative	lingua	linguae

Derived terms

• bilinguis
• ēlinguis
• trilinguis

• Vulgar Latin *linguāticum

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
• 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
  • Picard: langue
  • Walloon: linwe
• Italian: lingua
  • Maltese: lingwa
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: llingua
  • Extremaduran: luenga
  • 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 Occitan: lengua
  • Occitan: lenga
  • Old Catalan:
    • Catalan: llengua
• Old Spanish: lengua
  • Ladino: lengua / לינגוה‎
  • Spanish: lengua
    • Chavacano: lenggwa
    • Papiamentu: lenga
• Piedmontese: lengha
• Romagnol: lèngva
• Romanian: limbă
• Romansch: lieunga, laungia, lengua, glianga
• Sabir: lingua
• Sardinian: limba, lingua, limma, linga
• Sicilian: lingua
• Tarantino: lenga
• Venetian: łéngua

References

• lingua in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lingua in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lingua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lingua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a ready tongue: lingua promptum esse
    
  • volubility: linguae solutio
    
  • the Greek language is a richer one than the Latin: lingua graeca latinā locupletior (copiosior, uberior) est
    
  • intercourse of speech: commercium linguae
    
  • volubility: volubilitas, solutio linguae
    
  • to be united by having a common language: eiusdem linguae societate coniunctum esse cum aliquo (De Or. 3. 59. 223)
    
  • to speak the Greek language: graece or graeca lingua loqui
    
  • to know Latin: latinam linguam scire or didicisse
    
  • to introduce a new word into the Latin language: inducere novum verbum in latinam linguam
    
  • maintain a devout silence (properly, utter no ill-omened word): favete ore, linguis = εὐφημειτε
    

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Romansch

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)

1. tongue
2. language