Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#LINGUACategory:English unadapted borrowings from Latin#LINGUACategory:English terms derived from Latin#LINGUA lingua (“the tongue”). Doublet of langue and tongueCategory:English doublets#LINGUA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwə/Category:English 2-syllable words#LINGUACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUA

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#LINGUA

Noun

lingua (plural linguae or linguas)Category:English lemmas#LINGUACategory:English nouns#LINGUACategory:English countable nouns#LINGUACategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#LINGUACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. (anatomyCategory:en:Anatomy#LINGUA) Synonym of tongue.
   • 2009, Alex J. Packer, Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol Or Other Drugs, Read How You Want, →ISBN, page 24:

     Let your lingua loiter on its salty, hard surface. When you finally crack the nut, don’t swallow it right away.

     Category:English terms with quotations#LINGUA

   • 2016, E.B. Mendel, If Frogs Could Fly, Sunbridge Books, →ISBN:

     “I believe it’s from the condition he’s acquired,” she answered while moving closer to examine the elongated lingua. “You can put it back in your mouth now.”

     Category:English terms with quotations#LINGUA

2. (entomologyCategory:en:Entomology#LINGUA) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

References

• “lingua”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Gaulin, nilgau

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Corsican terms inherited from Latin#LINGUACategory:Corsican terms derived from Latin#LINGUA lingua.

Noun

lingua f (plural lingue)Category:Corsican lemmas#LINGUACategory:Corsican nouns#LINGUACategory:Corsican entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Corsican feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. tongue
2. language

Further reading

• “lingua” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Alternative forms

• língua (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#LINGUACategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#LINGUA lingua, from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#LINGUACategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#LINGUA lingua. Compare Portuguese língua.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lin‧gua

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)Category:Galician lemmas#LINGUACategory:Galician nouns#LINGUACategory:Galician countable nouns#LINGUACategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Galician feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. Category:gl:Organs#LINGUAtongue

   botar a lingua a pacer (idiom)

   to ramble; to be indiscreet

   (literally, “to put the tongue to graze”)

   Category:Galician terms with collocations#LINGUA

2. (countableCategory:Galician countable nouns#LINGUA) language (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)

Further reading

• “lingua”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Etymology

Derived from PortugueseCategory:Guinea-Bissau Creole terms derived from Portuguese#LINGUA língua. Cognate with Kabuverdianu lingua.

Noun

linguaCategory:Guinea-Bissau Creole lemmas#LINGUACategory:Guinea-Bissau Creole nouns#LINGUACategory:Guinea-Bissau Creole entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. tongue
2. (countableCategory:Guinea-Bissau Creole countable nouns#LINGUA) language (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)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡwa/Category:Interlingua terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUA

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)Category:Interlingua lemmas#LINGUACategory:Interlingua nouns#LINGUACategory:Interlingua entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. Category:ia:Organs#LINGUAtongue
2. (countableCategory:Interlingua countable nouns#LINGUA) language (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)

   Synonym: linguage

Alternative forms

• lengua (Romanesco, archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Latin#LINGUACategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#LINGUA lingua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlin.ɡwa/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#LINGUACategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUA

• Audio ("la lingua"):

  (file)

  Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#LINGUA

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#LINGUA
• Rhymes: -inɡwaCategory:Rhymes:Italian/inɡwa#LINGUACategory:Rhymes:Italian/inɡwa/2 syllables#LINGUA
• Hyphenation: lìn‧gua

Noun

lingua f (plural lingue)Category:Italian lemmas#LINGUACategory:Italian nouns#LINGUACategory:Italian countable nouns#LINGUACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Italian feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. Category:it:Organs#LINGUAtongue
2. (countableCategory:Italian countable nouns#LINGUA) language (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)
3. strip, tongue (of land)
4. (in the plural) foreign languages
5. the square horn of an anvil
6. (usually in the plural) a type of Italian flatbread

Further reading

• lingua in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• lingua in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Langiu, i lunga, langui, languì, nilgau

Etymology

Derived from PortugueseCategory:Kabuverdianu terms derived from Portuguese#LINGUA língua.

Noun

linguaCategory:Kabuverdianu lemmas#LINGUACategory:Kabuverdianu nouns#LINGUACategory:Kabuverdianu entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. tongue
2. (countableCategory:Kabuverdianu countable nouns#LINGUA) language (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)

Alternative forms

• alguenga, aluenga, eluenga, lengua, luenga

Etymology

Inherited from Old SpanishCategory:Ladino terms inherited from Old Spanish#LINGUACategory:Ladino terms derived from Old Spanish#LINGUA lengua (“tongue”), from LatinCategory:Ladino terms inherited from Latin#LINGUACategory:Ladino terms derived from Latin#LINGUA lingua. Cognate with Spanish lengua and more distantly Yiddish צונג (tsung).

Noun

lingua f (Hebrew spelling לינגוה, plural linguas)Category:Ladino lemmas#LINGUACategory:Ladino nouns#LINGUACategory:Ladino nouns in Latin script#LINGUACategory:Ladino entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Ladino feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA^[1]

1. Category:lad:Organs#LINGUAtongue

   Synonym: lashon

2. (countableCategory:Ladino countable nouns#LINGUA) language (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)

   Synonym: lashon

   • 1999, Eliezer Papo, La megila de Saray‎, E. Papo, page 6:

     Aún kon esto se siente akí ke mos topamos delantre de la lingua eskrita del autor mizmo, ke en realidad es únika.

     Even with this, here it feels that we find ourselves before a written language from the same author, who in reality is unique.

     Category:Ladino terms with quotations#LINGUA

References

Alternative forms

• dingua (pre-classical)

Etymology

From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#LINGUACategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#LINGUA *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#LINGUACategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LINGUA *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. The change of d- to l- is variously explained by a borrowing from another ItalicCategory:Latin terms derived from Italic languages#LINGUA language with such a shift and/or by a folk-etymological association with the verb lingō (“to lick”); compare Old Armenian լեզու (lezu) and Lithuanian liežùvis for the latter process. Other cognates include German Zunge and English tongue.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlɪŋ.ɡʷa]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#LINGUACategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUA
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliŋ.ɡʷa]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#LINGUACategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUA

Noun

lingua f (genitive linguae)Category:Latin lemmas#LINGUACategory:Latin nouns#LINGUACategory:Latin first declension nouns#LINGUACategory:Latin feminine nouns in the first declension#LINGUACategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Latin feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA; first declension

1. (literally) the tongue
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.4:

     Ut lingua lambentem pueros magister [...] invenerit

     That the teacher founded [the wolf] licking the boys by the tongue

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 11.17.66:

     sub ea minor lingua nulli ova generantium.

     No oviparous species possesses the lesser tongue (the epiglottis) below the uvula.

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
2. (transferred senseCategory:Latin terms with transferred senses#LINGUA)
   1. (metonymicCategory:Latin metonyms#LINGUA) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 11.338:

         […], largus opum et lingua melior, sed frigida bello dextera, […]

         […]: lavish of his wealth, and a better speaker, but with a hand frozen in battle: […]

        Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      1. the tongue or language of a people
         • 45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 1.10:

            […], Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam.

            […], the Latin language, so far from having a poor vocabulary, as is commonly supposed, is actually richer than the Greek.

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
         1. (post-classical) a dialect, idiom or mode of speech
            • c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.34:

              […] illis non verborum modo, sed linguarum etiam inter se differentium copia est.

              they [the Greeks] have not merely abundance of words, but they have also a number of different dialects.

              Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      2. (poeticCategory:Latin poetic terms#LINGUA, of animals) a voice, note, song, bark, etc.
         • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 3.361:

           volucrum linguas et praepetis omina pennae

           the language of birds and the omens of their wings in flight

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      3. an utterance, expression
         • c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.35:

           protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci γλώσσας vocant

           He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      4. to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)
         • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.601–602:

           saepe illī dīxerat Almō ‘nāta, tenē linguam,’ nec tamen illa tenet.

           Many a time had Almo said to her, ‘‘Daughter, hold your tongue,’’ and yet she did not hold it.
           (The river deity Almo (god) and his daughter, whom Ovid identifies as the Naiad Lara, otherwise known in ancient mythology as Larunda or Dea Tacita. The name of the ever-talkative Lara – a repeated syllable, as in ‘‘la-la’’ – echoes the Greek λαλεῖν, to talk, chat, prattle, speak.)

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
   2. tongue-shaped things:
      1. Ranunculus linguaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Ranunculus%20lingua (a flowering plant)

         Synonym: lingulāca

         • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 24.170:

           Lingua herba nascitur circa fontes.

           The plant called "tongue" grows around springs.

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      2. the oxtongue, bugloss
         • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 17.112:

            […], lingua bubula—herbae id genus est—insuper optegi iubet eamque inligari opertam stramentis: […]

            […], but he says it must be covered with a layer of bugloss—a species of plant—as well, and that this should be tied on with a layer of straw; […]

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      3. the houndstongue

         Synonym: cynoglōssos

      4. a tongue of land
         • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.17:

           Idae promunturium, cuius lingua in altum proicit.

           High Ida's cape, whose tongue into the deep extends.

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      5. a spoonful

         Synonym: lingula

      6. (musicCategory:la:Musical instruments#LINGUA) the tongue or reed of a Roman tibiae
         • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 10.84:

           […] homines repertos qui sonum earum addita in transversas harundines aqua foramen inspirantes linguave parva aliqua opposita mora indiscreta redderent similitudine.

           […] there have been found persons who could reproduce the birds' song with an indistinguishable resemblance by putting water into slanted reeds and breathing into the holes or by applying some slight check with the tongue.

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA
      7. (classical mechanicsCategory:la:Classical mechanics#LINGUA) the short arm of a lever
         • c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 10.8:

           […] lingua sub onus subdita, caput eius unius hominis viribus pressum id onus extollit.

           with the tongue of the lever placed under the weight, one man's strength, bearing down upon the head of it, heaves up the weight.

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#LINGUA

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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lingua”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a ready tongue: lingua promptum esse
    
  • volubility: linguae solutio
    
  • the Greek language is a richer one than the Latin: lingua graeca latinā locupletior (copiosior, uberior) est
    
  • intercourse of speech: commercium linguae
    
  • volubility: volubilitas, solutio linguae
    
  • to be united by having a common language: eiusdem linguae societate coniunctum esse cum aliquo (De Or. 3. 59. 223)
    
  • to speak the Greek language: graece or graeca lingua loqui
    
  • to know Latin: latinam linguam scire or didicisse
    
  • to introduce a new word into the Latin language: inducere novum verbum in latinam linguam
    
  • maintain a devout silence (properly, utter no ill-omened word): favete ore, linguis = εὐφημειτε
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook

Alternative forms

• lengoa, lengua, lingoa

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Old Galician-Portuguese terms inherited from Latin#LINGUACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Latin#LINGUA lingua, from Proto-ItalicCategory:Old Galician-Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic#LINGUACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic#LINGUA *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Old Galician-Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#LINGUACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LINGUA *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡu̯a/Category:Old Galician-Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUA
• Rhymes: -iŋɡu̯aCategory:Rhymes:Old Galician-Portuguese/iŋɡu̯a#LINGUACategory:Rhymes:Old Galician-Portuguese/iŋɡu̯a/2 syllables#LINGUA
• Hyphenation: lin‧gua

Noun

lingua f (plural *linguas)Category:Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas#LINGUACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese nouns#LINGUACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice rico, cantiga 101 (facsimile):

     Que logo llapareceu.
     ⁊ e con ſas mãoſ tãgeu
     llo roſtr e o guareceu.
     ⁊ foi lla lingua ſoltar
     Ben pod a ſennoꝛ ſen
     par. faʒer oyr ⁊ falar

     What then appeared to [somebody], and touched [somebody] with its hands, cured [somebody’s] face, and was to explain [it] in [somebody’s] language. One can well hear and speak to this gentleman without equal.

     Category:Old Galician-Portuguese terms with quotations#LINGUA

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “lingua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “lingua”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)Category:Portuguese lemmas#LINGUACategory:Portuguese nouns#LINGUACategory:Portuguese countable nouns#LINGUACategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Portuguese feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of línguaCategory:Portuguese forms superseded in 1943#LINGUACategory:Portuguese forms superseded in 1911#LINGUA

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Romansh terms inherited from Latin#LINGUACategory:Romansh terms derived from Latin#LINGUA lingua (“tongue, speech, language”).

Noun

lingua fCategory:Romansh lemmas#LINGUACategory:Romansh nouns#LINGUACategory:Romansh entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Romansh feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA (plural linguas)

1. (Rumantsch GrischunCategory:Rumantsch Grischun#LINGUA, PuterCategory:Puter Romansh#LINGUA, ValladerCategory:Vallader Romansh#LINGUA, countableCategory:Romansh countable nouns#LINGUA) language (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)

   Synonyms: (poetic) favella, (Rumantsch Grischun) linguatg, (poetic, Puter, Vallader) linguach

Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)Category:Sicilian lemmas#LINGUACategory:Sicilian nouns#LINGUACategory:Sicilian entries with incorrect language header#LINGUACategory:Sicilian feminine nouns#LINGUACategory:Pages with entries#LINGUACategory:Pages with 13 entries#LINGUA

1. eye dialect spelling of lìnguaCategory:Sicilian eye dialect#LINGUA