lingua

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.

Anagrams

• Gaulin, nilgau

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

1. tongue
2. language

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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• 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

Anagrams

• i lunga
• langui, languì

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

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)

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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 plant (alternatively called lingulaca)
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

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, 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
    

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

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