lingua

See also: língua

English

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋɡwə/

Noun

lingua (plural linguae or linguas)

1. tongue
2. (zoology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

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

   botar a lingua a pacer (idiom)

   to ramble; to be indiscreet

   (literally, “to put the tongue to graze”)

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

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

 

Descendants

• → Greek: λίγκα (lígka)

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

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/, [ˈlʲɪŋɡʷä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlin.ɡwa/, [ˈliŋɡwä]

• 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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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
• Lombard: lengua
• Megleno-Romanian: limbă
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: luenga
• Neapolitan: lengua
• Old French: langue, lingue, lengue
  • Middle French: langue
    • French: langue (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: laungue
  • Picard: lingue
  • Walloon: linwe
• Italian: lingua
  • → Maltese: lingwa
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: llingua
  • Extremaduran: luenga
  • Leonese: llingua
  • Mirandese: lhéngua
• Old Galician-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: lengua
    • Papiamentu: lenga
• Piedmontese: lenga
• Romagnol: lèngva
• Romanian: limbă
• Romansch: lieunga, laungia, lengua, glianga
• → Sabir: lingua
• Sardinian: limba, lingua, limma, linga
• Sicilian: lingua
• Tarantino: lenga
• Venetian: łéngoa, 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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