Meaning of lingua | Babel Free

Definitions

1. the tongue
   declension-1, feminine, literally
2. a tongue, utterance, language, speech
   declension-1, feminine, metonymically
3. the tongue or language of a people
   declension-1, feminine, metonymically
4. a dialect, idiom or mode of speech
   declension-1, feminine, metonymically, obsolete
5. a voice, note, song, bark, etc.
   declension-1, feminine, metonymically, poetic
6. an utterance, expression
   declension-1, feminine, metonymically
7. to hold one's tongue (linguam comprimere, linguam tenēre)
   declension-1, feminine, metonymically
8. tongue-shaped things:
   declension-1, feminine
9. Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)
   declension-1, feminine
10. the oxtongue, bugloss
    declension-1, feminine
11. the houndstongue
    declension-1, feminine
12. a tongue of land
    declension-1, feminine
13. a spoonful
    declension-1, feminine
14. the tongue or reed of a Roman tibiae
    declension-1, feminine
15. the short arm of a lever
    declension-1, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“Ut lingua lambentem pueros magister … invenerit”

That the teacher founded [the wolf] licking the boys by the tongue

“sub ea minor lingua nulli ova generantium.”

No oviparous species possesses the lesser tongue (the epiglottis) below the uvula.

“[…], largus opum et lingua melior, sed frigida bello dextera, […]”

[…]: lavish of his wealth, and a better speaker, but with a hand frozen in battle: […]

“[…], Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam.”

[…], the Latin language, so far from having a poor vocabulary, as is commonly supposed, is actually richer than the Greek.

“[…] illis non verborum modo, sed linguarum etiam inter se differentium copia est.”

they [the Greeks] have not merely abundance of words, but they have also a number of different dialects.

“volucrum linguas et praepetis omina pennae”

the language of birds and the omens of their wings in flight

“protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci γλώσσας vocant”

He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way

“saepe illī dīxerat Almō ‘nāta, tenē linguam,’ nec tamen illa tenet. Many a time had Almo said to her, ‘‘Daughter, hold your tongue,’’ and yet she did not hold it. (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.)”

“Lingua herba nascitur circa fontes.”

The plant called "tongue" grows around springs.

“[…], lingua bubula—herbae id genus est—insuper optegi iubet eamque inligari opertam stramentis: […]”

[…], 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; […]

“Idae promunturium, cuius lingua in altum proicit.”

High Ida's cape, whose tongue into the deep extends.

“[…] homines repertos qui sonum earum addita in transversas harundines aqua foramen inspirantes linguave parva aliqua opposita mora indiscreta redderent similitudine.”

[…] there have been found persons who could reproduce the birds' song with an indistinguishable resemblance by putting water into slanted reeds and breathing into the holes or by applying some slight check with the tongue.

“[…] lingua sub onus subdita, caput eius unius hominis viribus pressum id onus extollit.”

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.

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