English

Noun

lingua ‎(plural linguae)

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

Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f ‎(plural linguas)

1. language
2. tongue

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun

lingua ‎(plural linguas)

1. (anatomy) A tongue.
2. A language.

Synonyms

• (language): linguage

Related terms

• linguage
• linguista
• linguistica

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈliŋ.ɡwa]
• Hyphenation: lìn‧gua

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f ‎(plural lingue)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. language, tongue
3. strip, tongue (of land)
4. (in the plural) foreign languages

Related terms

Anagrams

• i lunga
• langui, languì

Ladino

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. (anatomy) tongue
2. (linguistics) language

Synonyms

• lashon

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/, [ˈlɪŋ.ɡʷa]

Noun

lingua f ‎(genitive linguae); first declension

1. (anatomy) 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 sth., e.g. "a tongue of land" or "a spoonful"
10. The short arm of a lever

Inflection

First declension.

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
• Sardinian: limba
• Lombard: lengua
• Megleno-Romanian: limbă
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: luenga
• Neapolitan: lengua
• Old French: langue
  • Middle French: langue
    • French: langue
      • English: langue
      • Haitian Creole: lang
      • Karipúna Creole French: lang
      • Louisiana Creole French: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long
      • Seychellois Creole: lalang
  • Norman: langue
  • Picard: langue
  • Walloon: linwe
• Italian: lingua
  • Maltese: lingwa
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: llingua
  • Leonese: llingua
  • Mirandese: lhéngua
• Old 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 Provençal: lengua
  • Occitan: lenga
  • Old Catalan:
    • Catalan: llengua
• Old Spanish: lengua
  • Extremaduran: luenga
  • Ladino: lengua / לינגוה
  • Spanish: lengua
    • Chavacano: lenggwa
    • Papiamentu: lenga
• Piedmontese: lengha
• Romagnol: lèngva
• Romanian: limbă
• Romansch: lieunga, laungia, lengua, glianga
• Sabir: lingua
• Sardinian: limba, lingua, limma, linga
• Sicilian: lingua
• Tarantino: lenga
• Venetian: 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lingua”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

• (Rumantsch Grischun) linguatg
• (Puter, Vallader, poetic) linguach
• (poetic) favella

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. (anatomy) tongue
2. language