Lemma 1līngụa
nounfeminine
tongue; speech, language; dialectMorphology
nominative singularlingu + a · regular
vocative singularlingu + a · regular
ablative singularlingu + a · regular
Lewis & Short
lingua, ae, [ jihvā; original form. dingua; A. -S. tunga; Zunge; tongue. Not from the root lih, lich, lingo]the tongue.
: linguam exserere, to thrust out the tongue, in token of derision or contempt: so. — Comically, as mock term of endearment — In mal. : homo malae linguae, a fellow with a bad tongue, fellator.
Since the tongue is an organ of speech, a tongue, utterance, speech, language; favete linguis, give attention, "be silent that you may hear,". — Comically: os habeat, linguam, perfidiam, tongue, readiness in speech.
The tongue or language of a people; so, auctores utriusque linguae.
Dialect, idiom, mode of speech (): illis non verborum modo, sed. linguarum etiam se inter differentium copia est.
of animals. the voice, note, song, bark, , 177.
An utterance, expression.
Of tongue-shaped things.
A plant, also called lingulaca.
Lingua bubula, a plant, oxtongue, bugloss.
Lingua canina, the plant hound's-tongue, also called cynoglossos;
A tongue of land: id promontorium, Cujus lingua in altum proicit, Pac. ; lingua dicitur promontorii genus non excellentis sed molliter in planum devexi, Paul. ex Müll.
A spoonful, as a measure, (al. lingulis).
The tongue or reed of a flute.
The short arm of a lever: ( ligula, VII.).