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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 linguist +? -ics, a modification of earlier linguistic, coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1837 from German Linguistik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l????w?st?ks/
• (US, pre-/?/ tensing) IPA^(key): /li???w?st?ks/

Noun

Wikiversity

linguistics (uncountable)

1. The scientific study of language.

Synonyms

• glossology, glottology
• linguistry
• speechlore
• wordlore

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:linguistics

Derived terms

Related terms

• linguist
• linguistic

Translations

See also

• diction
• grammar
• morphology
• philology
• phonetics
• phonology
• pragmatics
• semantics
• syntax

Anagrams

• linguicists