lingua – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of lingua

Noun: lingua
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singularlingua
Plurallinguae

Genitive

Singularlinguae
Plurallinguārum

Dative

Singularlinguae
Plurallinguīs

Accusative

Singularlinguam
Plurallinguās

Ablative

Singularlinguā
Plurallinguīs

Vocative

Singularlingua
Plurallinguae

Sample Sentences

  • Ut lingua lambentem pueros magister [...] invenerit (That the teacher founded [the wolf] licking the boys by the tongue) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 1.4]
  • sub ea minor lingua nulli ova generantium. (No oviparous species possesses the lesser tongue (the epiglottis) below the uvula.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 11.17.66]
  • […], largus opum et lingua melior, sed frigida bello dextera,[…] ([…]: lavish of his wealth, and a better speaker, but with a hand frozen in battle: […]) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 11.338]
  • […], Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam. ([…], the Latin language, so far from having a poor vocabulary, as is commonly supposed, is actually richer than the Greek.) [45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 1.10]
  • […]illis non verborum modo, sed linguarum etiam inter se differentium copia est. (they [the Greeks] have not merely abundance of words, but they have also a number of different dialects.) [c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 12.10.34]
  • volucrum linguas et praepetis omina pennae (the language of birds and the omens of their wings in flight) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 3.361]
  • protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci γλώσσας vocant (He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way) [c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 1.1.35]
  • saepe illī dīxerat Almō ‘nāta, tenē linguam,’ nec tamen illa tenet.
  • Many a time had Almo said to her, ‘‘Daughter, hold your tongue,’’ and yet she did not hold it.
  • (The river deity Almo (god) and his daughter, whom Ovid identifies as the Naiad Lara, otherwise known in ancient mythology as Larunda or Dea Tacita. The name of the ever-talkative Lara – a repeated syllable, as in ‘‘la-la’’ – echoes the Greek λαλεῖν, to talk, chat, prattle, speak.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.601–602]
  • Lingua herba nascitur circa fontes. (The plant called "tongue" grows around springs.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 24.170]
  • […], lingua bubula—herbae id genus est—insuper optegi iubet eamque inligari opertam stramentis:[…] ([…], but he says it must be covered with a layer of bugloss—a species of plant—as well, and that this should be tied on with a layer of straw; […]) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 17.112]
  • Idae promunturium, cuius lingua in altum proicit. (High Ida's cape, whose tongue into the deep extends.) [c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.17]
  • […]homines repertos qui sonum earum addita in transversas harundines aqua foramen inspirantes linguave parva aliqua opposita mora indiscreta redderent similitudine. ([…] there have been found persons who could reproduce the birds' song with an indistinguishable resemblance by putting water into slanted reeds and breathing into the holes or by applying some slight check with the tongue.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 10.84]
  • […]lingua sub onus subdita, caput eius unius hominis viribus pressum id onus extollit. (with the tongue of the lever placed under the weight, one man's strength, bearing down upon the head of it, heaves up the weight.) [c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 10.8]

Nouns inflected like lingua

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
3. Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
4. Latin dingua
5. Latin lingua
6. 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. See: German Nouns 'Zunge', English Nouns 'tongue'.

Verbs referencing "lingua"

English Nouns language, French Nouns langue, English Nouns linguist, English Nouns lingo, French Nouns langage, Russian Nouns язык, Italian Nouns lingua, Danish Nouns tunge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tunge, German Nouns Linguist, Romanian Nouns limbă, Spanish Nouns lenguaje, Old Spanish Nouns lengua, Spanish Nouns lengua, English Nouns languet, German Nouns Zunge, Catalan Nouns llengua, Danish Nouns lingvist, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns lingvist, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns lingvist, Portuguese Nouns linguagem, Gothic Nouns 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉, Asturian Nouns llingua, Catalan Nouns lingüista, Polish Nouns lingwista, Old Portuguese Nouns lenguage, Old Spanish Nouns lenguage, German Nouns Lingua franca.

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