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lingua

Pronunciation: [ˈlɪŋ.ɡʷa]

“lingua” is a Latin word. Its 14 meanings in English:

noun

  1. the tongue
  2. a tongue, utterance, language, speech
  3. the tongue or language of a people
  4. a dialect, idiom or mode of speech
  5. a voice, note, song, bark, etc.
  6. an utterance, expression
  7. to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)
  8. Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)
  9. the oxtongue, bugloss
  10. the houndstongue
  11. a tongue of land
  12. a spoonful
  13. the tongue or reed of a Roman tibiae
  14. the short arm of a lever

In Latin

  1. Viscus quod in solo oris situm est in plerisque chordatis, et quod nexum est cum osse hyoideum.
  2. Potestas locutionis; locutio.
  3. Sermo; omnes dictiones quae adhibentur a quadam natione; ut, lingua Latina.
  4. Planta, fortasse speciei Asplenium scoloplendrium. Lingua
  5. Promontorii genus non excellentis sed molliter in planum devexi.

Etymology

From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. 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 lingō (“to lick”); compare Old Armenian լեզու (lezu) and Lithuanian liežùvis for the latter…

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