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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese língua. Cognates with Kabuverdianu lingua.

Noun

lingua

  1. tongue
  2. language

Interlingua

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

  1. tongue
  2. language

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈliŋ.ɡwa]
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio(file)
  • 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

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese língua.

Noun

lingua

  1. tongue
  2. language

Ladino

Alternative forms

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

Latin

Alternative forms

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

Descendants

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

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

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
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