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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from a Romance descendant (e.g. Old French language) of Vulgar Latin *linguāticum. By surface analysis, lingua + -āgium.
Pronunciation
Noun
linguāgium n (genitive linguāgiī or linguāgī); second declension (Medieval Latin)
- a language
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “linguagium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 614