lingua

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lingua (“the tongue”). Doublet of langue and tongue.

An acute case of lapsus lingua, Mr. Crow. — Anderson Crow, Detective, George Barr McCutcheon
Abnuis? ac saltem stylus & noua lingua novusq; sermo grauis, sophia, se rogat aspicias. — Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Francesco Colonna
In the Lingua Franca we have sometimes "Avete bismillah?" or "bismillah_ato_?" that is, "taken your meal?" — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson

tongue, glossa, clapper

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