lingua.
tongue; speech, language; dialect;
Meaning & usage
the tongue
a tongue, utterance, language, speech
a tongue, utterance, language, speech the tongue or language of a people
a tongue, utterance, language, speech the tongue or language of a people a dialect, idiom or mode of speech
a tongue, utterance, language, speech a voice, note, song, bark, etc.
a tongue, utterance, language, speech an utterance, expression
a tongue, utterance, language, speech to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)
tongue-shaped things: Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)
tongue-shaped things: the oxtongue, bugloss
tongue-shaped things: the houndstongue
tongue-shaped things: a tongue of land
tongue-shaped things: a spoonful
tongue-shaped things: the tongue or reed of a Roman tibiae
tongue-shaped things: the short arm of a lever
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua 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 process. Other cognates include German Zunge and English tongue.
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