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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

English

Etymology

Clipping of otocinclus.

Noun

oto (plural otos)

1. (informal, fishkeeping) An otocinclus (freshwater fish, genus Otocinclus).

Derived terms

• dwarf oto
• tiger oto (Otocinclus cocama)
• zebra oto (Otocinclus cocama)

Anagrams

• OoT, oot, too

Esperanto

Noun

oto (accusative singular oton, plural otoj, accusative plural otojn)

1. (anatomy, sciences) ear (chiefly in compounds)

Synonyms

• orelo

Derived terms

• ota (“related to the ear”)
• otalgio (“otalgia, earache”)
• otito (“otitis”)
• otologio (“otology”)
• otoskopo (“otoscope”)
• otoskopio (“otoscopy”)

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Clipping of otomobil. From Dutch automobiel (“car”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oto/
• Hyphenation: oto

Noun

oto (first-person possessive otoku, second-person possessive otomu, third-person possessive otonya)

1. car, automobile, a vehicle steered by a driver.

Synonyms

• mobil
• otomobil

Etymology 2

From Min Nan ????? (û-to?, “bib”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oto/
• Hyphenation: oto

Noun

oto

1. bib, item of clothing for babies.

Further reading

• “oto” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

oto

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o?.to?/, [?o?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.to/, [???t??]

Noun

?t?

1. dative singular of ?tus
2. ablative singular of ?tus

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin altus. Eventually replaced by the form alto, which has more learned influence.

Adjective

oto

1. high
2. tall

Synonyms

• alto

Related terms

• otero

Descendants

• Spanish: oto (obsolete but found in toponyms and some derived words)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t?/

Particle

oto

1. here it is, there it is/they are etc.; voilà

Usage notes

Used when introducing something new to someone.

Further reading

• oto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• otto

Etymology

From Latin oct?, from Proto-Italic *okt?, from Proto-Indo-European *o?t?w.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t.to/

Numeral

oto

1. eight

Spanish

Verb

oto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of otar.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch auto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.to/

Noun

oto

1. car, automobile

   Synonym: wagi

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French auto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?]
• Hyphenation: o?to

Noun

oto (definite accusative otoyu, plural otolar)

1. Clipping of otomobil. (auto, car)

Declension

See also

• araba

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin oct?. Compare Italian otto.

Numeral

oto

1. eight

Adjective

oto

1. eighth