langue
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French langue. Doublet of lingua and tongue.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlangue (uncountable)
- (linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
Antonyms
edit- (language in use): parole
Anagrams
editBourguignon
editEtymology
editNoun
editlangue f (plural langues)
Franco-Provençal
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlangue (plural langue) (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)
References
edit- langue in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French langue, from Old French langue, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”).
See cognates in regional languages in France: Champenois laingue, Norman laungue, Gallo lenghe, Picard lingue, Bourguignon laingue, Franco-Provençal lengoua, Occitan lenga, Corsican lingua.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlangue f (plural langues)
- (anatomy) tongue
- la langue dans la bouche
- the tongue in the mouth
- (linguistics) language (system of communication using written or spoken words)
- la langue maternelle
- the mother tongue, native language
- une langue étrangère
- a foreign language
- Elle parle trois langues.
- She speaks three languages.
- faire parler la langue française— Bertrand Barère
- to make speak the French language
Derived terms
edit- avoir la langue bien pendue
- avoir un cheveu sur la langue
- donner sa langue au chat
- état de langue
- fait de langue
- langue A
- langue B
- langue C
- langue cible
- langue construite
- langue de bœuf
- langue de bois
- langue de Camões
- langue de Cervantes
- langue de chat
- langue de départ
- langue de Molière
- langue de Pouchkine
- langue de Shakespeare
- langue de si
- langue de Tolstoï
- langue de travail
- langue de Vondel
- langue des signes
- langue d’arrivée
- langue d’oc
- langue d’oïl
- langue étrangère
- langue maternelle
- langue morte
- langue reconstruite
- langue romane
- langue source
- langue verte
- langue vivante
- langue vocale
- mauvaise langue
- ne pas avoir sa langue dans sa poche
- prendre langue
- registre de langue
- sur le bout de la langue
- tenir sa langue
- tirer la langue
- tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche
- tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Haitian Creole: lang
- Karipúna Creole French: lang
- Louisiana Creole: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long
- Seychellois Creole: lalang
- → English: langue
Further reading
edit- “langue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editItalian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editlangue
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editlanguē
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French langue, from Latin lingua.
Noun
editlangue f (plural langues)
Derived terms
edit- Middle French: langue de cerf
Descendants
edit- French: langue (see there for further descendants)
Norman
editEtymology
editFrom Old French langue, from Latin lingua.
Noun
editlangue f (plural langues)
- (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) tongue
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[1], page 543:
- Le cul d'un sac et la langue d'une femme gagnent terjoûs.
- The bottom of a sack and the tongue of a woman always win.
- (Jersey) language
Derived terms
edit- langue dé belle-méthe (“mother-in-law's tongue”) (plant)
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlangue oblique singular, f (oblique plural langues, nominative singular langue, nominative plural langues)
Synonyms
edit- (language): language
Descendants
editPicard
editEtymology
editFrom Old French langue, from Latin lingua.
Noun
editlangue f (plural langues)
Sango
editEtymology
editFrom French langue (“language”).
Noun
editlangue
Slovak
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlangue f (indeclinable)
Further reading
edit- “langue”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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