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English
Etymology
From Latin ligula (“strap, spoon”), a variant of lingula (“small tongue-shaped object”), itself partly derived from lingō (“lick”) and partly a diminutive of lingua (“tongue”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ligula (plural ligulas or ligulae)
- A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects.
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:He unhasped the ligulae of his haversack, taking out a pair of blue jeans which he tossed to Bruno.
Translations
strap or strap-shaped object, especially in plants or insects
Latin
Noun
ligula
- Alternative form of lingula (“tongue or tongue-shaped thing”)
38 CE – 104 CE,
Martial,
Epigraph 120 :
- Quamvis me ligulam dicant equitesque patresque,
dicor ab indoctis lingula grammaticis.- Though knights (the equites, an equestrian aristocratic order) and senators call me ligula,
I am called lingula by stolid and ignorant grammarians.
Declension
First-declension noun.
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