lingual

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from lingua (“the tongue; a language, speech”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to lingua +‎ -al. Doublet of lingualis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/, /ˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl, -ɪŋɡjuəl

Adjective

lingual (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, dentistry, relational) Related to, near, or on the side toward the tongue.

   Synonym: (rare) glossal

   1. (phonetics) Articulated with the tongue.
2. (linguistics, relational) Related to language or linguistics.

   Synonym: linguistic

Synonyms

• tonguely

Coordinate terms

dentistry location adjectivesedit

• anterior
• apical
• apicocoronal
• axial
• buccal
• buccoapical
• buccocervical
• buccogingival
• buccolabial
• buccolingual
• bucco-occlusal
• buccopalatal
• cervical
• coronal
• coronoapical
• distal
• distoapical
• distobuccal
• distocclusal
• distocervical
• distoclusal
• distocoronal
• distofacial
• distogingival
• distoincisal
• distolingual
• disto-occlusal
• distopalatal
• facial
• gingival
• incisal
• incisocervical
• inferior
• labial
• lingual
• linguobuccal
• linguo-occlusal
• mandibular
• maxillary
• mesial
• mesioapical
• mesiobuccal
• mesiocclusal
• mesiocervical
• mesioclusal
• mesiocoronal
• mesiodistal
• mesiofacial
• mesiogingival
• mesioincisal
• mesiolingual
• mesio-occlusal
• mesiopalatal
• occlusal
• palatal
• posterior
• proximal
• superior
• vestibular

Derived terms

• linguality
• lingualize
• lingually

Compound words

• alveolingual
• alveololingual
• ambilingual
• anterolingual
• apicolingual
• audiolingual
• axiolingual
• bilingual
• brevilingual
• buccolingual
• cervicolingual
• colingual
• collingual
• crosslingual
• decalingual
• dentilingual
• distolingual
• dorsolingual
• equilingual
• exolingual
• faciolingual
• fissilingual
• gingivolingual
• hemilingual
• heptalingual
• heterolingual
• hexalingual
• homolingual
• hyolingual
• interlingual
• intralingual
• labiolingual
• laterolingual
• matrilingual
• mediolingual
• mesiolingual
• mesolingual
• metalingual
• metrolingual
• midlingual
• monolingual
• multilingual
• nonalingual
• octolingual
• omnilingual
• orolingual
• panlingual
• paralingual
• pentalingual
• perilingual
• plurilingual
• polylingual
• posterolingual
• postlingual
• prelingual
• protolingual
• quadrilingual
• quinquelingual
• retrolingual
• semilingual
• sesquilingual
• sublingual
• tetralingual
• translingual
• trilingual
• unilingual
• ventrolingual
• vestibulolingual

Expressions

• lingual artery
• lingual bone
• lingual nerve
• lingual tonsil

Translations

related to the tongue

Arabic: لِسَانِيّ (lisāniyy) Belarusian: язы́чны (jazýčny), языко́вы (jazykóvy) Bulgarian: ези́чен (ezíčen) Catalan: lingual (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 舌的 (zh) (shé de) Czech: lingvální Esperanto: langa Finnish: kieli- (fi), kielen- (fi) French: lingual (fr) Galician: lingual (gl) German: lingual (de), Zungen- (de) Greek: γλωσσικός (el) (glossikós) Hebrew: לְשׁוֹנִי (l'shoní) Irish: teangach, teangúil Italian: linguale (it) Latin: linguālis Macedonian: јазичен (jazičen) Polish: językowy (pl) m Portuguese: lingual (pt) Russian: язы́чный (ru) (jazýčnyj), лингва́льный (ru) (lingválʹnyj), языково́й (ru) (jazykovój) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јѐзичнӣ, јѐзичкӣ Roman: jèzičnī (sh), jèzičkī (sh) Slovak: jazykový Slovene: (medical) lingválen, jezíčen Spanish: lingual (es) Swedish: tung-, lingval Ukrainian: язико́вий (uk) (jazykóvyj) Volapük: linegik Welsh: tafodol

related to language — see linguistic

Noun

lingual (plural linguals)

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

Coordinate terms

• alveolar
• dental
• glottal
• labial
• nasal
• palatal
• pharyngeal
• velar

Translations

sound articulated with the tongue

Chinese: Mandarin: 舌音 (zh) (shéyīn) Finnish: kieliäänne German: Zungenlaut m Japanese: 舌音 (ぜつおん, zetsuon) Latin: linguālis

References

• “lingual”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “lingual”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Luliang, Lüliang, lingula

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

lingual (feminine linguale, masculine plural linguaux, feminine plural linguales)

1. lingual

Descendants

• → Romanian: lingual

Further reading

• “lingual”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany):

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

lingual (strong nominative masculine singular lingualer, not comparable)

1. (relational) tongue; lingual
2. (relational) language; lingual, linguistic

   Synonym: sprachlich

Derived terms

• audiolingual
• bilingual
• extralingual
• interlingual
• intralingual
• monolingual
• multilingual
• paralingual
• perlingual
• plurilingual
• sublingual
• trilingual

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech”) + -ālis. By surface analysis, língua +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lĩˈɡwaw/ [lĩˈɡwaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lĩˈɡwal/ [lĩˈɡwaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lĩˈɡwal/ [lĩˈɡwaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /lĩˈɡwa.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: lin‧gual

Adjective

lingual m or f (plural linguais)

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

Related terms

• língua

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lingual, from Medieval Latin linguālis.

Adjective

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

1. lingual

Declension

Declension of lingual

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	lingual		linguală		linguali	linguale
	definite	lingualul		linguala		lingualii	lingualele
genitive- dative	indefinite	lingual		linguale		linguali	linguale
	definite	lingualului		lingualei		lingualilor	lingualelor

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /linˈɡwal/ [lĩŋˈɡwal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: lin‧gual

Adjective

lingual m or f (masculine and feminine plural linguales)

1. lingual

Derived terms

• sublingual

Related terms

• lengua

Further reading

• “lingual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024