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See also: língua and lìngua
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin lingua (“the tongue”). Doublet of langue and tongue.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
lingua (plural linguae or linguas)
- (anatomy) 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.
- 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.”
- (entomology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
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References
- “lingua”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lingua, from Latin lingua. Compare Portuguese língua.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iŋɡwa
- Rhymes: -iŋħwa
- Hyphenation: lin‧gua
Noun
lingua f (plural linguas)
Further reading
- “lingua”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
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Guinea-Bissau Creole
Etymology
Derived from Portuguese língua. Cognate with Kabuverdianu lingua.
Noun
lingua
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
lingua (plural linguas)
- tongue
- (countable) 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
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Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
lingua f (plural lingue)
- tongue
- (countable) 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)
- strip, tongue (of land)
- (in the plural) foreign languages
- the square horn of an anvil
- (usually in the plural) a type of Italian flatbread
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Kabuverdianu
Etymology
Derived from Portuguese língua.
Noun
lingua
Ladino
Latin
Old Galician-Portuguese
Portuguese
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Sicilian
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