lingua

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See also: língua

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lingua (“the tongue”). Doublet of langue and tongue.

Pronunciation

Noun

lingua (plural linguae or linguas)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of tongue.
    • 2009, Alex J. Packer, Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol Or Other Drugs, Read How You Want, →ISBN, page 24:
      Let your lingua loiter on its salty, hard surface. When you finally crack the nut, don’t swallow it right away.
    • 2016, E.B. Mendel, If Frogs Could Fly, Sunbridge Books, →ISBN:
      “I believe it’s from the condition he’s acquired,” she answered while moving closer to examine the elongated lingua. “You can put it back in your mouth now.”
  2. (entomology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

References

Anagrams

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lingua, from Latin lingua. Compare Portuguese língua.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈliŋɡwa/
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /ˈliŋħwa/

 

  • Hyphenation: lin‧gua

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. tongue
    botar a lingua a pacer (idiom)
    to ramble; to be indiscreet
    (literally, “to put the tongue to graze”)
  2. language

Further reading

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese língua. Cognate with Kabuverdianu lingua.

Noun

lingua

  1. tongue
  2. language

Interlingua

Interlingua Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ia

Pronunciation

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

  1. tongue
  2. language

Synonyms

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

Pronunciation

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. (usually in the plural) a type of Italian flatbread

Descendants

  • → Greek: λίγκα (lígka)
  • → Maltese: lingwa
  • →? Sabir: lingua

Further reading

  • lingua in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • lingua in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese língua.

Noun

lingua

  1. tongue
  2. language

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin lingua.

Noun

lingua f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling לינגוה, plural linguas)

  1. tongue
  2. (linguistics) language

Synonyms

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. The change of d- to l- is variously explained by a borrowing from another Italic language with such a shift and/or by a folk-etymological association with the verb lingō (“to lick”); compare Old Armenian լեզու (lezu) and Lithuanian liežùvis for the latter process. Other cognates include German Zunge and English tongue.

Pronunciation

Noun

lingua f (genitive linguae); first declension

  1. (literally) the tongue
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. (metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.338:
         , largus opum et lingua melior, sed frigida bello dextera,
         : lavish of his wealth, and a better speaker, but with a hand frozen in battle:
      1. the tongue or language of a people
        • 45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 1.10:
           , Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam.
           , the Latin language, so far from having a poor vocabulary, as is commonly supposed, is actually richer than the Greek.
        1. (post-classical) a dialect, idiom or mode of speech
          • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.34:
            illis non verborum modo, sed linguarum etiam inter se differentium copia est.
            they have not merely abundance of words, but they have also a number of different dialects.
      2. (poetic, of animals) a voice, note, song, bark, etc.
        • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.361:
          volucrum linguas et praepetis omina pennae
          the language of birds and the omens of their wings in flight
      3. an utterance, expression
        • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.35:
          protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci γλώσσας vocant
          He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way
      4. to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)
        • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.601–602:
          saepe illī dīxerat Almō ‘nāta, tenē linguam,’ nec tamen illa tenet.
          Many a time had Almo said to her, ‘‘Daughter, hold your tongue,’’ and yet she did not hold it.
          (The river deity Almo (god) and his daughter, whom Ovid identifies as the Naiad Lara, otherwise known in ancient mythology as Larunda or Dea Tacita. The name of the ever-talkative Lara – a repeated syllable, as in ‘‘la-la’’ – echoes the Greek λαλεῖν, to talk, chat, prattle, speak.)
    2. tongue-shaped things:
      1. Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)
        Synonym: lingulāca
      2. the oxtongue, bugloss
        • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.112:
           , lingua bubula—herbae id genus est—insuper optegi iubet eamque inligari opertam stramentis:
           , but he says it must be covered with a layer of bugloss—a species of plant—as well, and that this should be tied on with a layer of straw;
      3. the houndstongue
        Synonym: cynoglōssos
      4. a tongue of land
      5. a spoonful
        Synonym: lingula
      6. (music) the tongue or reed of a Roman tibiae
        • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.84:
          homines repertos qui sonum earum addita in transversas harundines aqua foramen inspirantes linguave parva aliqua opposita mora indiscreta redderent similitudine.
          there have been found persons who could reproduce the birds' song with an indistinguishable resemblence by putting water into slanted reeds and breathing into the holes or by applying some slight check with the tongue.
      7. (classical mechanics) the short arm of a lever
        • c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 10.8:
          lingua sub onus subdita, caput eius unius hominis viribus pressum id onus extollit.
          with the tongue of the lever placed under the weight, one man's strength, bearing down upon the head of it, heaves up the weight.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

Noun

lingua f (plural *linguas)

  1. tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth)

Descendants

References

  • Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “lingua”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN

Portuguese

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of língua.

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”).

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) language

Synonyms

Sicilian

Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)

  1. (eye dialect) Alternative form of lìngua
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