linguiça

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See also: linguica and lingüiça

English

Noun

linguiça (countable and uncountable, plural linguiças)

  1. Alternative form of linguica

Portuguese

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linguiças

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Latin Lūcānia
    Proto-Italic *-kos
    Latin -cus
    Latin -icus
    Old Galician-Portuguese *longueĩça
    Portuguese linguiça

    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *longueĩça, from Latin lūcānica, probably through a Vulgar Latin form *lucanicia. Compare Galician longaínza and Spanish longaniza.

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -isɐ
    • Hyphenation: lin‧gui‧ça

    Noun

    linguiça f (plural linguiças)

    1. linguica, longaniza, long pork sausage
    2. (slang, vulgar) penis
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → English: linguica
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