longa

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English

Etymology 1

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

Preposition

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.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

longa, in musical notation

From Latin longa.

Noun

longa (plural longæ or longe or longas)

  1. (music) A musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes.
    Synonym: (U.S.) quadruple whole note

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From English and French long, from Latin longus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlonɡa/
  • Hyphenation: lon‧ga
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -onɡa

Adjective

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

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse langa.

Pronunciation

Noun

longa f (genitive singular longu, plural longur)

  1. ling (fish)
  2. common ling

Declension

Declension of longa
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative longa longan longur longurnar
accusative longu longuna longur longurnar
dative longu longuni longum longunum
genitive longu longunnar longa longanna

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto longa.

Adjective

longa

  1. long

Antonyms

Derived terms

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

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

longa f pl

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

Italian

Adjective

longa

  1. feminine singular of longo

Anagrams

Kituba

Verb

longa

  1. to advise

Latin

Adjective

longa

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

Adjective

longā

  1. ablative feminine singular of longus

Noun

longa f (genitive longae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative longa longae
Genitive longae longārum
Dative longae longīs
Accusative longam longās
Ablative longā longīs
Vocative longa longae

Descendants

  • → English: longa

References

  • 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

Neapolitan

Adjective

longa f sg

  1. feminine singular of luongo

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

longa f

  1. definite singular of longe

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

Anagrams

Occitan

Adjective

longa

  1. feminine singular of long

Portuguese

Etymology

From longo.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lon‧ga

Adjective

longa

  1. feminine singular of longo

Derived terms

Noun

longa f (plural longas)

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

Noun

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

  1. Clipping of longa-metragem.

Spanish

Noun

longa f (plural longas)

  1. (music) longa

Adjective

longa f

  1. feminine singular of longo

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