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6-letter words (2 found)

LINGUA,NILGAU,

5-letter words (8 found)

ALGIN,ALIGN,INULA,LIANG,LIGAN,LINGA,LUNGI,UGALI,

4-letter words (20 found)

AGIN,AGLU,ANIL,GAIN,GAUN,GILA,GLIA,GUAN,GULA,IGLU,LAIN,LANG,LING,LUNA,LUNG,NAIL,NGAI,ULAN,ULNA,UNAI,

3-letter words (21 found)

AIL,AIN,ALU,ANI,GAL,GAN,GAU,GIN,GNU,GUL,GUN,ING,LAG,LIG,LIN,LUG,LUN,NAG,NIL,NUG,UNI,

2-letter words (13 found)

AG,AI,AL,AN,GI,GU,IN,LA,LI,NA,NU,UG,UN,

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Definitions and meaning of lingua

lingua

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwə/

Noun

lingua (plural linguae or linguas)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of tongue.
  2. (entomology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

Related terms

  • lingua franca

References

  • “lingua”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Gaulin, nilgau

Galician

Alternative forms

  • língua (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lin‧gua

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. tongue
  2. language

Further reading

  • “lingua” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese língua. Cognate with Kabuverdianu lingua.

Noun

lingua

  1. tongue
  2. language

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

  1. tongue
  2. language

Synonyms

  • (language): linguage

Related terms

  • linguage
  • linguista
  • linguistica

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlin.ɡwa/
  • Rhymes: -inɡwa
  • Hyphenation: lìn‧gua

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

Related terms

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

  • Langiu, i lunga, langui, languì, nilgau

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese língua.

Noun

lingua

  1. tongue
  2. language

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • lengua

Etymology

From Latin lingua.

Noun

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

  1. tongue
  2. (linguistics) language

Synonyms

  • lashon

Latin

Alternative forms

  • dingua (pre-Classical)

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

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlin.ɡʷa/, [ˈlʲɪŋɡʷä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlin.ɡwa/, [ˈliŋɡwä]

Noun

lingua f (genitive linguae); first declension

  1. (literally) the tongue
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. (metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
      1. the tongue or language of a people
        1. (post-classical) a dialect, idiom or mode of speech
      2. (poetic, of animals) a voice, note, song, bark, etc.
      3. an utterance, expression
      4. to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)
    2. tongue-shaped things:
      1. Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)
        Synonym: lingulāca
      2. the oxtongue, bugloss
      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
      7. (classical mechanics) the short arm of a lever

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: limbã
    • Istro-Romanian: limbĕ
    • Megleno-Romanian: limbă
    • Romanian: limbă
  • Dalmatian:
    • langa, luanga
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: lingua
    • Italian: lingua
      • → Greek: λίγκα (lígka)
      • → Maltese: lingwa
      • →? Sabir: lingua
      • ⇒ Italian: linguine (see there for further descendants)
    • Neapolitan: lengua, lenga
    • Sicilian: lingua
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: längua
      • Ligurian: lengua
      • Lombard: lengua
      • Piedmontese: lenga
      • Romagnol: lèngva
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: lenghe
      • Ladin: lënga
      • Romansch: lieunga, lengua, glianga, laungia, leua
    • Istriot: lèngua, lengua, laèngua
    • Venetian: łéngua, łéngoa, léngoa, lengoa, léngua
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Franco-Provençal: lengua
      • Franco-Provençal: lengva
    • Old French: langue, lingue, lengue
      • Middle French: langue
        • French: langue (see there for further descendants)
      • Norman: laungue
      • Picard: lingue
      • Walloon: linwe
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: lengua
      • Catalan: llengua
    • Old Occitan: lengua, lenga
      • Occitan: lenga
        Gascon: lengua
        Limousin: linga
        Provençal: lengo, lenguo
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: luenga (with metathesis of /w/)
    • Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: llingua, llengua
      • Extremaduran: luenga
      • Leonese: llingua
      • Mirandese: lhéngua
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: lingua, lengua, lingoa, lengoa
      • Fala: lengua
      • Galician: lingua
      • Portuguese: língua (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: lengua
      • Ladino: לינגוה / lengua, lingua
      • Spanish: lengua
        • Chavacano: lengua
        • Papiamentu: lenga
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: limba (Logudorese), lingua (Campidanese)
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: lingua
    • → Esperanto: lingvo

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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of língua.

Romansch

Etymology

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

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) language

Synonyms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun) linguatg
  • (Puter, Vallader, poetic) linguach
  • (poetic) favella

Sicilian

Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)

  1. (eye dialect) Alternative form of lìngua

Source: wiktionary.org