different between lingua vs lingual

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

Borrowed from Medieval Latin lingu?lis, from lingua (“the tongue; a language, speech”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??.?w?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l??.?w?l/, /?l??.?ju.?l/
• Rhymes: -???w?l, -???ju?l

Adjective

lingual (not comparable) (relational)

1. (anatomy, dentistry) Related to, near, or on the side toward the tongue.
   1. (phonetics) Articulated with the tongue.
2. Related to language or linguistics.

   Synonym: linguistic

Synonyms

• tonguely

Coordinate terms

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

lingual (plural linguals)

1. (phonetics) A sound articulated with the tongue.

Translations

See also

References

• “lingual”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “lingual”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• lingula

German

Etymology

From Medieval Latin lingu?lis, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

lingual (not comparable)

1. lingual; related to the tongue
2. lingual, linguistic; related to language

   Synonym: sprachlich

Derived terms

Portuguese

Etymology

From Medieval Latin lingu?lis, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech”) + -alis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /l?.??wa?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /l?.??waw/

Adjective

lingual m or f (plural linguais, comparable)

1. (anatomy) lingual (relating to the tongue)
2. (phonetics) lingual (articulated with the tongue)

Related terms

• língua

Romanian

Etymology

From French lingual

Adjective

lingual m or n (feminine singular lingual?, masculine plural linguali, feminine and neuter plural linguale)

1. lingual

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin lingu?lis, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lin??wal/, [l????wal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

lingual (plural linguales)

1. lingual

Derived terms

• sublingual

Related terms

• lengua

Further reading

• “lingual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.