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lengua

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See also: léngua, lèngua, łéngua, and Lengua

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish lengua (“tongue”). Doublet of langue, lingua, and tongue.

Noun

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lengua (uncountable)

  1. A Mexican dish consisting of beef tongue used to make tacos.

Anagrams

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Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lingua

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lengua f (plural lengue)

  1. (Romanesco, archaic) alternative form of lingua (“tongue”)

Ladino

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Noun

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lengua f (Hebrew spelling לינגוה, plural lenguas)[1]

  1. alternative form of lingua
    • 1979, Isaac ben Michael Badhav, Ana María Riaño López, Un tratado sefardí de moral‎[1], Ameller, →ISBN, page 53:
      “Si me olƀidare de ti, ¡O Yᵉrûšāláyim!, se olƀide mi dereĉa, se apege mi lengua a mi paladar, si no me akordare de ti, si no enaltesiere a Yᵉrûšāláyim soƀre la kaƀesera de mi alegría”
      If I will forget about you, O Jerusalem, [if] my right is forgotten, [if] my tongue sticks to my palate, if I won’t agree with you, if I do not rise to Jerusalem over the leader of my pleasure.
    • 2000, La Lettre Sépharade‎[2], numbers 1–19, La Lettre Sépharade, page 7:
      Mi primera lengua fue el espanyol muestro, i syempre fue la lengua de famiya.
      My mother tongue was our Spanish, and it was always our family’s language.

References

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  1. ^ “lengua”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Ligurian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lengua f (plural lengue)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth)
  2. (metonymic) language
    Synonym: lenguaggio
  3. (ichthyology) common sole (Solea solea)

Derived terms

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Lombard

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lingua.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈleːŋɡwa/, /ˈleŋɡwa/

Noun

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lengua f

  1. tongue
  2. (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)

Neapolitan

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Neapolitan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nap

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lingua.

Pronunciation

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  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈleŋɡwə]

Noun

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lengua f (plural lengue)

  1. tongue
  2. language

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 106: “la lingua” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Noun

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lengua

  1. alternative form of lingua

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Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lingua.

Noun

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lengua f (oblique plural lenguas, nominative singular lengua, nominative plural lenguas)

  1. (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)
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Descendants

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  • Occitan: lenga
    Gascon: lengua
    Limousin: linga
    Provençal: lengo, lenguo

Old Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lingua.

Noun

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lengua f (plural lenguas)

  1. (anatomy) tongue
  2. (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)

Descendants

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References

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  • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “lengua”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 302

Romansh

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lingua.

Noun

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lengua f (plural lenguas)

  1. (Vallader) tongue

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish lengua, from Latin lingua. Cognate with English tongue and language.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlenɡwa/ [ˈlẽŋ.ɡwa]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -enɡwa
  • Syllabification: len‧gua

Noun

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lengua f (plural lenguas)

  1. tongue (organ)
  2. (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)
    Synonyms: idioma, habla
    • 2021 April 26, John Malathronas, “¿Cuáles son los idiomas más fáciles (y difíciles) de aprender para los hablantes nativos de inglés?”, in CNN en Español‎[3]:
      No es de extrañar que las dos lenguas no europeas más sencillas de aprender utilicen el alfabeto latino.
      El malayo es la lengua franca de varios países del sudeste asiático y se ha simplificado por su uso como segunda lengua por parte de hablantes no nativos.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. Spanish (subject taught in schools)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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