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English

Etymology

From Middle French insecte, from Latin ?nsectum (“with a notched or divided body, cut up”), from perfect passive participle of ?nsec? (“I cut into, I cut up”), from ?n- (“from in- before f or s”) + sec? (“I cut”), from the notion that the insect's body is "cut into" three sections. Calque of Ancient Greek ??????? (éntomon, “insect”), from ??????? (éntomos, “cut into pieces”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ns?kt/

Noun

insect (plural insects)

1. An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.

2. (colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc

3. (derogatory) A contemptible or powerless person.

Synonyms

• bug (colloquial)

Derived terms

• insectageddon
• insecticidal
• insecticide
• insectiform
• insectile
• insectivore
• insectivorous

Translations

See also

• arachnid
• arthropod
• beetle
• bug
• chafer
• coleopter
• entomology
• larva
• worm

Further reading

• insect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• insecta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• insect on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• insect on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• ceints, incest, nicest, scient

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) insekt

Etymology

Originally having a wider meaning (sense 2), as in Aristotle. From Latin ?nsectum (“bug; cut up”), from ?nsec? (“I cut up into”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek ??????? (éntomon, “bug”), from ??????? (éntomos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?kt/
• Hyphenation: in?sect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

insect n (plural insecten, diminutive insectje n)

1. insect, arthropod of the class Insecta.

   Synonyms: gekorven dier, kerfdier

2. (now uncommon) bug (any small arthropod or invertebrate that somewhat resembles an insect)

   Synonym: gekorven dier

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??.?w?/

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.

References

• “lingua”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Gaulin, nilgau

Galician

Etymology

From Latin lingua.

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

1. tongue

2. language

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese língua. Cognate with Kabuverdianu lingua.

Noun

lingua

1. tongue
2. language

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?.?wa/

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

1. tongue
2. language

Synonyms

• (language): linguage

Related terms

• linguage
• linguista
• linguistica

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lingua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lin.?wa/
• 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. (especially in plural) A type of Italian flatbread

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Greek: ????? (lígka)

Anagrams

• i lunga
• langui, languì

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 ???????, plural linguas)

1. tongue
2. (linguistics) language

Synonyms

• lashon

Latin

Alternative forms

• dingua (ante-classical)

Etymology

From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-Italic *den?w?, from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s. 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 ling? (“lick”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lin.??a/, [?l????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lin.?wa/, [?li??w?]

Noun

lingua f (genitive linguae); first declension

1. (literally, anatomy) tongue
2. (transferred sense)
   1. tongue, utterance, language, speech
      1. tongue or language of a people
         1. dialect, idiom or mode of speech
      2. (poetic) (of animals) voice, note, song, bark, etc.
      3. utterance, expression
   2. tongue-shaped things:
      1. Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)

         Synonym: lingul?ca

      2. oxtongue, bugloss
      3. houndstongue

         Synonym: cynogl?ssos

      4. tongue of land
      5. spoonful
      6. (music) tongue or reed of the Roman tibiae
      7. (classical mechanics) short arm of a lever

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum

Descendants

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, 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.

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

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)

1. tongue
2. language