língua
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See also: lingua
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lingua (“tongue, language”), from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”).
Cognate with Galician lingua, Spanish lengua, Catalan llengua, Occitan lenga, French langue, Italian lingua and Romanian limbă.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ĩɡwɐ
- Hyphenation: lín‧gua
Noun
língua f (plural línguas)
- (anatomy) tongue
- language
- Synonym: idioma
- Língua portuguesa
- Portuguese language
- O inglês é a minha segunda língua.
- English is my second language.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:língua.