dingua

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dinguas, dinguât

Verb

dingua

1. third-person singular past historic of dinguer

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪŋ.ɡʷa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiŋ.ɡʷa]

Noun

dingua f (genitive dinguae); first declension (hapax legomenon)

1. pre-classical form of lingua (attested in Gaius Marius Victorinus)

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dingua	dinguae
genitive	dinguae	dinguārum
dative	dinguae	dinguīs
accusative	dinguam	dinguās
ablative	dinguā	dinguīs
vocative	dingua	dinguae

References

• “dingua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press