longa

From Australian Kriol langa, from English along. Compare Bislama and Tok Pisin long.

longa

1. (Australian Aboriginal) Belonging to; of, in, at, to.
   • 1991, Jimmy Chi, Bran Nue Dae, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 137:

     This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia.

   • 2000, Queensland Department of Justice, Aboriginal English in the courts: a handbook:

     He wait longa river.

• la
• 'long

From Latin longa.

longa (plural longae or longe or longas)

1. (music) A musical note equal to two (or occasionally three) breves or whole notes.

   Synonyms: (US, two breves) quadruple whole note, (US, three breves, rare) sextuple whole note

• Anglo, Anglo-, Golan, Angol, anglo-, Logan, anglo, logan, along, NALGO

From English and French long, from Latin longus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlonɡa/
• Hyphenation: lon‧ga

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• Rhymes: -onɡa

longa (accusative singular longan, plural longaj, accusative plural longajn)

1. long
   • 1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Eliro 2:23.

     Post longa tempo mortis la reĝo de Egiptujo.

     After a long time the king of Egypt died.

   Antonym: mallonga

• longiĝi
• longtempa

From Old Norse langa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔŋka/
• Rhymes: -ɔŋka

longa f (genitive singular longu, plural longur)

1. ling (fish)
2. common ling

longa

1. feminine singular of longo

From Esperanto longa.

longa

1. long

• kurta

• longeskar (“to lengthen”, transitive verb)
• longigar (“to lengthen, elongate, prolong”, intransitive verb)

• IPA^(key): , , ,

longa f pl

1. nominative plural of long
2. vocative plural of long
3. dative plural of long

longa

1. feminine singular of longo

• Anglo, Golan, anglo, anglo-, gnola, lagno, lagnò

longa

1. to advise

longa

1. inflection of longus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

longā

1. ablative feminine singular of longus

longa f (genitive longae); first declension

1. (music) a long (British), quadruple whole note (US)

First-declension noun.

• → English: longa

• longa 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)
• longa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
    
  • (ambiguous) to begin with a long syllable: oriri a longa (De Or. 1. 55. 236)
    
  • (ambiguous) a man-of-war: navis longa
    

Probably from Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀ng (“be correct, suit”).

• IPA^(key): /lo˩.ⁿɡa˩/

-longa (infinitive kolonga)

1. suit
2. marry, take in marriage

• lónga

• Ashem Tem Kawata (2004) Dictionnaire lingala-falansé et français-lingala (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN , page 141.

longa f sg

1. feminine singular of luongo

longa f

1. definite singular of longe

• logna

longa f (definite singular longa, indefinite plural longer or longor, definite plural longene or longone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of lange
2. definite singular of longe

• logna, ongla

longa

1. feminine singular of long

From longo.

• Hyphenation: lon‧ga

longa

1. feminine singular of longo

• longa-duração
• longa-metragem

longa f (plural longas)

1. (grammar) long syllable
2. (music) long (a note formerly used in music, twice the length of a breve)

longa (Portugal) f or (Brazil) m (plural longas)

1. Clipping of longa-metragem.

longa f (plural longas)

1. (music) longa

longa f

1. feminine singular of longo

• “longo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10