langage

• language (archaic or misspelling)

From Middle French language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum (corresponding to langue + -age), from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”).

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.ɡaʒ/

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langage m (plural langages)

1. language: word choice and usage

   Surveille ton langage!

   Watch your language!

   Koko, gorille devenue mondialement célèbre pour sa maîtrise du langage des signes et vue par beaucoup comme un modèle d'empathie avec les humains, s'est éteinte ce mercredi 20 juin.

   Koko, monkey wordly famous for her knowledge of the signs language and seen by many as an empathy model with humans, has died this Wednesday 20 June.

2. (computing) programming language

• see langue

• Haitian Creole: langaj
  • → English: langaj
• Mauritian Creole: langaz

• “langage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• language, langag, langwache

From Old French language; from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum.

• IPA^(key): /lanˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /lanˈɡwaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

langage (plural langages)

1. language, tongue, speech
2. dialect, idiom, local speech
3. discussion, talk
4. country (with a shared language)

• speche
• tung
• thede
• leden, lede

• English: language

• “langāǧe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

langage m (oblique plural langages, nominative singular langages, nominative plural langage)

1. Alternative form of language
   • circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Si savoit parler mains langages

     He knew how to speak many languages