langue

French

langue (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.

• (language in use): parole

• Naugle, genual, lagune, ulnage

From Latin lingua.

langue f (plural langues)

1. language

From Middle French langue, from Old French langue, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”).

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman laungue, Gallo lenghe, Picard lingke, Bourguignon laingue, Franco-Provençal lengoua, Occitan lenga, Corsican lingua.

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃ɡ/

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langue f (plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue

   la langue dans la bouche

   the tongue in the mouth

2. (linguistics) language (system of communication using written or spoken words)

   la langue maternelle

   the mother tongue, native language

   faire parler la langue française

   to make speak the French language

   — Bertrand Barère

• langue maternelle

• → English: langue
• Haitian Creole: lang
• Karipúna Creole French: lang
• Louisiana Creole French: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long
• Seychellois Creole: lalang

• “langue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• englua
• lagune

• Rhymes: -anɡwe

langue

1. third-person singular present indicative of languire

• lagune

languē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of langueō

From Old French langue, from Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

langue f (plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. language

• (language): langage

• French: langue
  • → English: langue
  • Haitian Creole: lang
  • Karipúna Creole French: lang
  • Louisiana Creole French: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long
  • Seychellois Creole: lalang

From Old French langue, from Latin lingua, from Old Latin *dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

langue f (plural langues)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) tongue
2. (Jersey) language

• langue dé belle-méthe (“mother-in-law's tongue”) (plant)

• lingue
• lengue

From Latin lingua, from Old Latin *dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

langue f (oblique plural langues, nominative singular langue, nominative plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. language

• (language): language

• Middle French: langue
  • French: langue
    • → English: langue
    • Haitian Creole: lang
    • Karipúna Creole French: lang
    • Louisiana Creole French: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long
    • Seychellois Creole: lalang
• Norman: langue
• Picard: langue
• Walloon: linwe

From Old French langue, from Latin lingua, from Old Latin *dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

langue f (plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. language

From French langue.

• IPA^(key): /ɫaːŋɡ/

langue f

1. (linguistics) langue

Indeclinable.

• langue in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk