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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ng?gw?j, IPA^(key): /?læ??w?d??/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [?le???w?d??]
• Hyphenation: lan?guage

Etymology 1

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s (“tongue, speech, language”). Displaced native Old English ?eþ?ode.

Noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

1. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
   • 1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 ?ISBN, page 240:

     Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:

     And ‘blubbing’... Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

4. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
   • 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor ?ISBN:

     A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
   • 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:

     A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings […] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.

   • 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:

     Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.

6. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
   • 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages ?ISBN, page 94

     In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

7. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Hope

     Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]

8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

9. (uncountable) Profanity.

Synonyms

• (form of communication): see Thesaurus:language
• (vocabulary of a particular field): see Thesaurus:jargon
• (computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language
• (particular words used): see Thesaurus:wording

Hypernyms

• medium

Hyponyms

• See Category:en:Languages

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)

1. (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.

   • Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

See also

• bilingual
• lexis
• linguistics
• multilingual
• term
• trilingual
• word

Etymology 2

Alteration of languet.

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

References

• language at OneLook Dictionary Search
• language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• language in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. Archaic spelling of langage.

Middle English

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. Alternative form of langage

Middle French

Alternative forms

• langage
• langaige
• languaige

Etymology

From Old French language.

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue

Descendants

• French: langage
  • Haitian Creole: langaj
    • ? English: langaj
  • Mauritian Creole: langaz

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Classical Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan??ad???/

Noun

language f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue, lingue

Descendants

• ? Middle English: language
  • English: language
• Middle French: language
  • French: langage
    • Haitian Creole: langaj
      • ? English: langaj
    • Mauritian Creole: langaz
• ? Old Spanish: lenguage

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

From Malay air.

Noun

aer

1. water

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

aer f (plural aerioù)

1. air

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo, from Proto-Germanic *air?. Cognate with Finnish airo.

Noun

aer (genitive aeru, partitive aeru)

1. paddle

Declension

Irish

Alternative forms

• aidhéar

Etymology

From Old Irish aer, from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e???/

Noun

aer m (genitive singular aeir, nominative plural aeir)

1. air
2. sky
3. (weather) climate
4. gaiety, pleasure
5. (music) air, tune

Declension

Synonyms

• (sky, air): spéir
• (climate): aeráid, clíoma

Derived terms

Noun

aer m (genitive singular aeir)

1. wonder

Declension

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “aer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “aer” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 6.
• "aer" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “air”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.e?r/, [?ä?e?r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?a?.e?r/, [?ä?e?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.er/, [????r]

Noun

??r m or f (genitive ?eris or ?eros); third declension

1. air
2. the lower atmosphere

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -?r).

Descendants

References

• aer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish aer, from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??/

Noun

aer f

1. sky
2. air

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *?r, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz.

Noun

âer f

1. ear (of corn, grain etc.)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aar

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

?er m

1. eagle

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aar

Further reading

• “aer”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “aer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “aer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.er/

Noun

aer m (genitive aeir, nominative plural aeir)

1. air
2. sky

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: aer, aidhéar
• Manx: aer
• Scottish Gaelic: adhar

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “aer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ??r.

Noun

aer n (plural aere)

1. air

Declension

Derived terms

• aera
• aeresc
• aeros

Related terms

• aerisi

See also

• v?zduh

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin habe?.

Verb

aer

1. to have

See also

• èser (“to be”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /a???r/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ai?r/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /a?r/

Verb

aer

1. (literary) impersonal imperative of mynd

   Synonym: eler

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?.

Noun

aer n (plural [please provide])

1. hair

Alternative forms

• aor
• 'aer
• 'aor