different between lingua vs glossa

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

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ?????? (glôssa, “tongue”).

Noun

glossa (plural glossae)

1. (zoology) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect.

Related terms

• paraglossa

Translations

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glossa. Doublet of chiosa.

Noun

glossa f (plural glosse)

1. gloss (explanatory note)

Related terms

• glossare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

glossa

1. third-person singular present indicative of glossare
2. second-person singular imperative of glossare

Anagrams

• glasso, glassò

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (glôssa).

Noun

glossa f

1. tongue

Latin

Alternative forms

• gl?sa
• gloss. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (glôssa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??lo?s.sa/, [????o?s??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??los.sa/, [??l?s??]

Noun

gl?ssa f (genitive gl?ssae); first declension

1. an obsolete, foreign, rare, or otherwise obscure or difficult term that requires explanation
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Ausonius to this entry?)
   • circa AD 95, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (author), Harold Edgeworth Butler (editor, translator), Institutio Oratoria (1920), book I, chapter i, § 35:

     protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci ??????? vocant, dum aliud agitur, ediscere et inter prima elementa consequi rem postea proprium tempus desideraturam. et quoniam circa res adhuc tenues moramur, ii quoque versus, qui ad imitationem scribendi proponentur, non otiosas velim sententias habeant sed honestum aliquid monentes.

     He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way and, while he is still engaged on the first rudiments, acquire what would otherwise demand special time to be devoted to it. And as we are still discussing minor details, I would urge that the lines, which he is set to copy, should not express thoughts of no significance, but convey some sound moral lesson. ? translation from the same source

   Synonym: gloss?ma

   1. (Late Latin) an explanation or interpretation of such a word
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Isidore of Seville to this entry?)

      Synonym: interpret?ti?

   2. (Medieval Latin) an explanation added to a passage of text, a gloss
2. (in the plural, as glossae) a term applied to collections of such words with explanations, a glossary
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Marcus Terentius Varro to this entry?)

   Synonyms: gloss?rium, gloss?t?ra, gloss?mata

   1. (Medieval Latin) a series of glosses assembled into a commentary
3. (Medieval Latin) a language, dialect, or peculiar idiom

   Synonyms: idi?ma, lingua

4. (Medieval Latin) an image or example (of a thing)

   Synonyms: exemplum, im?g?

Usage notes

• This word is written in untransliterated Greek in some Classical sources.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Old French: glose
  • Middle French: glose
    • French: glose
  • ? Czech: glosa
• Italian: chiosa
• ? Catalan: glossa
• ? Middle English: glosse
  • English: gloss
• ? Old Irish: glúas
  • Middle Irish: glúais
    • Irish: gluais
• ? Italian: glossa
• ? Polish: glosa
• ? Portuguese: glosa
• ? Spanish: glosa

References

• glossa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1. GLOSSA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 2. GLOSSA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• glossa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 716/2
• glossa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “glossa” on page 767/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “glossa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 470/2