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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bilinguis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bisulcilingua"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lingula"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lingulus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "linguālis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "linguārium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "*linguāticum"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "linguātus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "linguāx"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "linguōsus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "trilinguis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ēlinguis"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Balkan Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rup",
"2": "limbã"
},
"expansion": "Aromanian: limbã",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Aromanian: limbã"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ruo",
"2": "limbĕ"
},
"expansion": "Istro-Romanian: limbĕ",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Istro-Romanian: limbĕ"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ruq",
"2": "limbă"
},
"expansion": "Megleno-Romanian: limbă",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Megleno-Romanian: limbă"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "limbă"
},
"expansion": "Romanian: limbă",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Romanian: limbă"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Dalmatian:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dlm",
"2": "langa",
"alts": "1",
"nolb": "1"
},
"expansion": "langa, luanga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "langa, luanga"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Italo-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "co",
"2": "lingua"
},
"expansion": "Corsican: lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Corsican: lingua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "lingua"
},
"expansion": "Italian: lingua\n→ Greek: λίγκα (lígka)\n→ Maltese: lingwa\n→? Sabir: lingua",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Italian: lingua\n→ Greek: λίγκα (lígka)\n→ Maltese: lingwa\n→? Sabir: lingua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "linguine",
"der": "1"
},
"expansion": "⇒ Italian: linguine",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
"name": "see desc"
}
],
"text": "⇒ Italian: linguine (see there for further descendants)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nap",
"2": "lengua",
"3": "lenga"
},
"expansion": "Neapolitan: lengua, lenga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Neapolitan: lengua, lenga"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "scn",
"2": "lingua"
},
"expansion": "Sicilian: lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sicilian: lingua"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "North Italian:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Gallo-Italic:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "egl",
"2": "längua"
},
"expansion": "Emilian: längua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Emilian: längua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lij",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Ligurian: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ligurian: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lmo",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Lombard: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Lombard: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pms",
"2": "lenga"
},
"expansion": "Piedmontese: lenga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Piedmontese: lenga"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rgn",
"2": "lèngva"
},
"expansion": "Romagnol: lèngva",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Romagnol: lèngva"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Rhaeto-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fur",
"2": "lenghe"
},
"expansion": "Friulian: lenghe",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Friulian: lenghe"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lld",
"2": "lënga"
},
"expansion": "Ladin: lënga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ladin: lënga"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rm",
"2": "lieunga",
"3": "lengua",
"4": "glianga",
"5": "laungia",
"6": "leua"
},
"expansion": "Romansch: lieunga, lengua, glianga, laungia, leua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Romansch: lieunga, lengua, glianga, laungia, leua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ist",
"2": "lèngua",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Istriot: lèngua, lengua, laèngua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Istriot: lèngua, lengua, laèngua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vec",
"2": "łéngua",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Venetian: łéngua, łéngoa, léngoa, lengoa, léngua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Venetian: łéngua, łéngoa, léngoa, lengoa, léngua"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Gallo-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Old Franco-Provençal: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frp",
"2": "lengva"
},
"expansion": "Franco-Provençal: lengva",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Franco-Provençal: lengva"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "langue"
},
"expansion": "Old French: langue, lingue, lengue\nMiddle French: langue\nFrench: langue (see there for further descendants)\nNorman: laungue\nPicard: lingue\nWalloon: linwe",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old French: langue, lingue, lengue\nMiddle French: langue\nFrench: langue (see there for further descendants)\nNorman: laungue\nPicard: lingue\nWalloon: linwe"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Occitano-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-oca",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Old Catalan: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Catalan: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "llengua"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: llengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: llengua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pro",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Old Occitan: lengua, lenga\nOccitan: lenga\nGascon: lengua\nLimousin: linga\nProvençal: lengo, lenguo",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Occitan: lengua, lenga\nOccitan: lenga\nGascon: lengua\nLimousin: linga\nProvençal: lengo, lenguo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "an",
"2": "luenga",
"qq": "with metathesis of /w/"
},
"expansion": "Aragonese: luenga (with metathesis of /w/)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Aragonese: luenga (with metathesis of /w/)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-ole"
},
"expansion": "Old Leonese:",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Leonese:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ast",
"2": "llingua",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Asturian: llingua, llengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Asturian: llingua, llengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ext",
"2": "luenga"
},
"expansion": "Extremaduran: luenga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Extremaduran: luenga"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-leo",
"2": "llingua"
},
"expansion": "Leonese: llingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Leonese: llingua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mwl",
"2": "lhéngua"
},
"expansion": "Mirandese: lhéngua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Mirandese: lhéngua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-opt",
"2": "lingua",
"3": "lengua",
"4": "lingoa",
"5": "lengoa"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: lingua, lengua, lingoa, lengoa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: lingua, lengua, lingoa, lengoa"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fax",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Fala: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Fala: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "lingua"
},
"expansion": "Galician: lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: lingua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "língua"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: língua",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
"name": "see desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: língua (see there for further descendants)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osp",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Old Spanish: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Spanish: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lad",
"2": "לינגוה"
},
"expansion": "Ladino: לינגוה",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lad",
"2": "lengua",
"3": "lingua",
"nolb": "1"
},
"expansion": "lengua, lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ladino: לינגוה / lengua, lingua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: lengua\nChavacano: lengua\nPapiamentu: lenga",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: lengua\nChavacano: lengua\nPapiamentu: lenga"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Insular Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sc",
"2": "limba",
"3": "lingua",
"qq1": "Logudorese",
"qq2": "Campidanese"
},
"expansion": "Sardinian: limba (Logudorese), lingua (Campidanese)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sardinian: limba (Logudorese), lingua (Campidanese)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Borrowings:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lingua",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: lingua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "lingvo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: lingvo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: lingvo"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "dingua"
},
"expansion": "dingua",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*denɣwā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *denɣwā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc"
},
"expansion": "Italic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "lingō",
"t": "to lick"
},
"expansion": "lingō (“to lick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xcl",
"2": "լեզու"
},
"expansion": "Old Armenian լեզու (lezu)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "liežùvis"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian liežùvis",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Zunge"
},
"expansion": "German Zunge",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tongue"
},
"expansion": "English tongue",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, 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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "linguae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "lingua",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguārum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguam",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguās",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguā",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lingua",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lingua<1>"
},
"expansion": "lingua f (genitive linguae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lingua<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "That the teacher founded [the wolf] licking the boys by the tongue",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.4",
"text": "Ut lingua lambentem pueros magister … invenerit"
},
{
"english": "No oviparous species possesses the lesser tongue (the epiglottis) below the uvula.",
"ref": "c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.17.66",
"text": "sub ea minor lingua nulli ova generantium."
}
],
"glosses": [
"the tongue"
],
"id": "en-lingua-la-noun-2gvi4bUS",
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literally) the tongue"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"literally"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin metonyms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "0 14 14 14 14 14 14 4 2 3 0 3 2 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Language",
"orig": "la:Language",
"parents": [
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…], the Latin language, so far from having a poor vocabulary, as is commonly supposed, is actually richer than the Greek.",
"ref": "45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 1.10",
"text": "[…], Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"the tongue or language of a people"
],
"id": "en-lingua-la-noun-rT9-L2TO",
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
],
[
"people",
"people"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"(metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"the tongue or language of a people"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin metonyms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "0 14 14 14 14 14 14 4 2 3 0 3 2 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Language",
"orig": "la:Language",
"parents": [
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "they [the Greeks] have not merely abundance of words, but they have also a number of different dialects.",
"ref": "c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.34",
"text": "[…] illis non verborum modo, sed linguarum etiam inter se differentium copia est."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"the tongue or language of a people",
"a dialect, idiom or mode of speech"
],
"id": "en-lingua-la-noun-uwzpG3WU",
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
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"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "egl",
"2": "längua"
},
"expansion": "Emilian: längua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Emilian: längua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lij",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Ligurian: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ligurian: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lmo",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Lombard: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Lombard: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pms",
"2": "lenga"
},
"expansion": "Piedmontese: lenga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Piedmontese: lenga"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rgn",
"2": "lèngva"
},
"expansion": "Romagnol: lèngva",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Romagnol: lèngva"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Rhaeto-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fur",
"2": "lenghe"
},
"expansion": "Friulian: lenghe",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Friulian: lenghe"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lld",
"2": "lënga"
},
"expansion": "Ladin: lënga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ladin: lënga"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rm",
"2": "lieunga",
"3": "lengua",
"4": "glianga",
"5": "laungia",
"6": "leua"
},
"expansion": "Romansch: lieunga, lengua, glianga, laungia, leua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Romansch: lieunga, lengua, glianga, laungia, leua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ist",
"2": "lèngua",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Istriot: lèngua, lengua, laèngua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Istriot: lèngua, lengua, laèngua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vec",
"2": "łéngua",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Venetian: łéngua, łéngoa, léngoa, lengoa, léngua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Venetian: łéngua, łéngoa, léngoa, lengoa, léngua"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Gallo-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Old Franco-Provençal: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frp",
"2": "lengva"
},
"expansion": "Franco-Provençal: lengva",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Franco-Provençal: lengva"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "langue"
},
"expansion": "Old French: langue, lingue, lengue\nMiddle French: langue\nFrench: langue (see there for further descendants)\nNorman: laungue\nPicard: lingue\nWalloon: linwe",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old French: langue, lingue, lengue\nMiddle French: langue\nFrench: langue (see there for further descendants)\nNorman: laungue\nPicard: lingue\nWalloon: linwe"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Occitano-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-oca",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Old Catalan: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Catalan: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "llengua"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: llengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: llengua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pro",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Old Occitan: lengua, lenga\nOccitan: lenga\nGascon: lengua\nLimousin: linga\nProvençal: lengo, lenguo",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Occitan: lengua, lenga\nOccitan: lenga\nGascon: lengua\nLimousin: linga\nProvençal: lengo, lenguo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "an",
"2": "luenga",
"qq": "with metathesis of /w/"
},
"expansion": "Aragonese: luenga (with metathesis of /w/)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Aragonese: luenga (with metathesis of /w/)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-ole"
},
"expansion": "Old Leonese:",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Leonese:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ast",
"2": "llingua",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Asturian: llingua, llengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Asturian: llingua, llengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ext",
"2": "luenga"
},
"expansion": "Extremaduran: luenga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Extremaduran: luenga"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-leo",
"2": "llingua"
},
"expansion": "Leonese: llingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Leonese: llingua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mwl",
"2": "lhéngua"
},
"expansion": "Mirandese: lhéngua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Mirandese: lhéngua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-opt",
"2": "lingua",
"3": "lengua",
"4": "lingoa",
"5": "lengoa"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: lingua, lengua, lingoa, lengoa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: lingua, lengua, lingoa, lengoa"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fax",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Fala: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Fala: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "lingua"
},
"expansion": "Galician: lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: lingua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "língua"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: língua",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
"name": "see desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: língua (see there for further descendants)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osp",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Old Spanish: lengua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Spanish: lengua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lad",
"2": "לינגוה"
},
"expansion": "Ladino: לינגוה",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lad",
"2": "lengua",
"3": "lingua",
"nolb": "1"
},
"expansion": "lengua, lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ladino: לינגוה / lengua, lingua"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "lengua"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: lengua\nChavacano: lengua\nPapiamentu: lenga",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: lengua\nChavacano: lengua\nPapiamentu: lenga"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Insular Romance:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sc",
"2": "limba",
"3": "lingua",
"qq1": "Logudorese",
"qq2": "Campidanese"
},
"expansion": "Sardinian: limba (Logudorese), lingua (Campidanese)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sardinian: limba (Logudorese), lingua (Campidanese)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Borrowings:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lingua",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: lingua",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: lingua"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "lingvo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: lingvo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: lingvo"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "dingua"
},
"expansion": "dingua",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*denɣwā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *denɣwā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc"
},
"expansion": "Italic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "lingō",
"t": "to lick"
},
"expansion": "lingō (“to lick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xcl",
"2": "լեզու"
},
"expansion": "Old Armenian լեզու (lezu)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "liežùvis"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian liežùvis",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Zunge"
},
"expansion": "German Zunge",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tongue"
},
"expansion": "English tongue",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, 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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "linguae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "lingua",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguārum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguam",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguās",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "linguā",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "linguīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lingua",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "linguae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lingua<1>"
},
"expansion": "lingua f (genitive linguae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lingua<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "That the teacher founded [the wolf] licking the boys by the tongue",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.4",
"text": "Ut lingua lambentem pueros magister … invenerit"
},
{
"english": "No oviparous species possesses the lesser tongue (the epiglottis) below the uvula.",
"ref": "c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.17.66",
"text": "sub ea minor lingua nulli ova generantium."
}
],
"glosses": [
"the tongue"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literally) the tongue"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"literally"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…], the Latin language, so far from having a poor vocabulary, as is commonly supposed, is actually richer than the Greek.",
"ref": "45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 1.10",
"text": "[…], Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"the tongue or language of a people"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
],
[
"people",
"people"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"(metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"the tongue or language of a people"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "they [the Greeks] have not merely abundance of words, but they have also a number of different dialects.",
"ref": "c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.34",
"text": "[…] illis non verborum modo, sed linguarum etiam inter se differentium copia est."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"the tongue or language of a people",
"a dialect, idiom or mode of speech"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
],
[
"people",
"people"
],
[
"dialect",
"dialect"
],
[
"idiom",
"idiom"
],
[
"mode",
"mode"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"(metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"the tongue or language of a people",
"(post-classical) a dialect, idiom or mode of speech"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"metonymically",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms",
"Latin poetic terms",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the language of birds and the omens of their wings in flight",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.361",
"text": "volucrum linguas et praepetis omina pennae"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"a voice, note, song, bark, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
],
[
"poetic",
"poetic"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
],
[
"voice",
"voice"
],
[
"note",
"note"
],
[
"song",
"song"
],
[
"bark",
"bark"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"(metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"(poetic, of animals) a voice, note, song, bark, etc."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of animals"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"metonymically",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way",
"ref": "c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.35",
"text": "protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci γλώσσας vocant"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"an utterance, expression"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
],
[
"expression",
"expression"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"(metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"an utterance, expression"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.601–602",
"text": "saepe illī dīxerat Almō ‘nāta, tenē linguam,’ nec tamen illa tenet.\nMany a time had Almo said to her, ‘‘Daughter, hold your tongue,’’ and yet she did not hold it.\n(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.)"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
],
[
"hold",
"hold"
],
[
"comprimere",
"comprimere"
],
[
"tenēre",
"tenēre"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"(metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech",
"to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…]: lavish of his wealth, and a better speaker, but with a hand frozen in battle: […]",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.338",
"text": "[…], largus opum et lingua melior, sed frigida bello dextera, […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a tongue, utterance, language, speech"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"speech",
"speech"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"(metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "The plant called \"tongue\" grows around springs.",
"ref": "c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.170",
"text": "Lingua herba nascitur circa fontes."
}
],
"glosses": [
"tongue-shaped things:",
"Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"flowering",
"flowering#English"
],
[
"plant",
"plant#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"tongue-shaped things:",
"Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lingulāca"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…], 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; […]",
"ref": "c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.112",
"text": "[…], lingua bubula—herbae id genus est—insuper optegi iubet eamque inligari opertam stramentis: […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"tongue-shaped things:",
"the oxtongue, bugloss"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"oxtongue",
"oxtongue"
],
[
"bugloss",
"bugloss"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"tongue-shaped things:",
"the oxtongue, bugloss"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"glosses": [
"tongue-shaped things:",
"the houndstongue"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"houndstongue",
"houndstongue"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"tongue-shaped things:",
"the houndstongue"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cynoglōssos"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "High Ida's cape, whose tongue into the deep extends.",
"ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.17",
"text": "Idae promunturium, cuius lingua in altum proicit."
}
],
"glosses": [
"tongue-shaped things:",
"a tongue of land"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"land",
"land"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"tongue-shaped things:",
"a tongue of land"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"glosses": [
"tongue-shaped things:",
"a spoonful"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"spoonful",
"spoonful"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"tongue-shaped things:",
"a spoonful"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lingula"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses",
"la:Musical instruments"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…] there have been found persons who could reproduce the birds' song with an indistinguishable resemblence by putting water into slanted reeds and breathing into the holes or by applying some slight check with the tongue.",
"ref": "c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.84",
"text": "[…] homines repertos qui sonum earum addita in transversas harundines aqua foramen inspirantes linguave parva aliqua opposita mora indiscreta redderent similitudine."
}
],
"glosses": [
"tongue-shaped things:",
"the tongue or reed of a Roman tibiae"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"reed",
"reed"
],
[
"Roman",
"Roman"
],
[
"tibiae",
"tibiae"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"tongue-shaped things:",
"(music) the tongue or reed of a Roman tibiae"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses",
"la:Classical mechanics"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "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.",
"ref": "c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 10.8",
"text": "[…] lingua sub onus subdita, caput eius unius hominis viribus pressum id onus extollit."
}
],
"glosses": [
"tongue-shaped things:",
"the short arm of a lever"
],
"links": [
[
"tongue",
"tongue"
],
[
"classical mechanics",
"classical mechanics"
],
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"arm",
"arm"
],
[
"lever",
"lever"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense; classical mechanics; classical mechanics",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense)",
"tongue-shaped things:",
"(classical mechanics) the short arm of a lever"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlin.ɡʷa/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈlʲɪŋɡʷä]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlin.ɡwa/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈliŋɡwä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"pre-Classical"
],
"word": "dingua"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Gaius Marius Victorinus"
],
"word": "lingua"
}
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"msg": "''a tongue, utterance, language,'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"lingua"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "lingua",
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}
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