lenguage

• lenguagen

Borrowed from Old Occitan lenguatge, lengaje, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Classical Latin lingua.

• IPA^(key): /lẽˈɡwa.d͡ʒe/

lenguage m or f

1. language
2. Romance language

• nossa lenguage

• lengua, lingua

• Galician: linguaxe
• Portuguese: linguagem

Borrowed from Old French language or Old Occitan lenguatge, lengaje, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, based on Latin lingua (“tongue”).

• IPA^(key): [lẽŋˈɡwa.ʒe]

lenguage m (plural lenguages)

1. language
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 1r.

     Et por que el ſabie fablar aquel lenguage. ¬ leye la ſu letra; paga ſe mucho de buſcar los ſus libros ¬ de eſtudiar por ellos.

     And because he could speak that language and could read in their letters, he strove to seek out their books and study from them.

   • Idem, f. 1v.

     Dela piedra aque llaman magnitat en caldeo ¬ en arauigo. ¬ en latin magnetes. ¬ en lenguage caſtellano aymant.

     Of the stone they call magnitat in Chaldean and Arabic, and magnetes in Latin, and aymant in the Castilian language.

• lengua

• Spanish: lenguaje