Noun: lingua
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | lingua |
| Plural f | linguas |
countable
Sample Sentences
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botar a lingua a pacer (to ramble; to be indiscreet)
Nouns inflected like lingua
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, 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. Old Galician-Portuguese lingua
7. Galician lingua
8. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lingua (“tongue, language”), from Latin lingua. Compare Portuguese língua. See: Portuguese Nouns '
língua'.
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