língua
See also: lingua
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lingua (“tongue, language”), from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”).
Cognate with Galician lingua, Spanish lengua, Catalan llengua, Occitan lenga, French langue, Italian lingua and Romanian limbă.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ĩɡwɐ
- Hyphenation: lín‧gua
Noun
[edit]língua f (plural línguas)
- (anatomy) tongue
- language
- Synonym: idioma
- Língua portuguesa
- Portuguese language
- O inglês é a minha segunda língua.
- English is my second language.
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]língua m or f by sense (plural línguas)
- (archaic) interpreter (person who converts spoken language in real time)
- Synonym: intérprete
- 1858 January 7, Francisco Felizardo Saudás de Carvalho, Auto de averiguação; republished as “N.º 68–C”, in Documentos relativos ao apresamento, julgamento e entrega da barca franceza Charles et Georges, Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1858, page 122:
- Disseram mais os ditos Antonio e Tambor, que a Barca viera a Quitangonha ou Matibana, e que fundeára perto de uma Ilha, e que logo fundeada o Capitão e um Mouro que traziam a bordo por nome Abdala, que servia de lingua, foram para terra levando dinheiro n'um sacco […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:língua.
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ĩɡwɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ĩɡwɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Anatomy
- Portuguese terms with collocations
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- Portuguese nouns with irregular gender
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese nouns with multiple genders
- Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Portuguese terms with archaic senses
- Portuguese terms with quotations