lingo
English edit
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From Latin lingua (“language”) + -o (diminutive suffix).
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lingo (countable and uncountable, plural lingos or lingoes)
- (informal) Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.
- 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 47:
- [...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.
- 1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 327:
- "You see, ma'am, I can't divest myself of my professional lingo," observed Mr. Banks.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
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language peculiar to a particular group or region
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lingô
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *lingō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ-. Cognate with Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem) and English lick.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlin.ɡoː/, [ˈlʲɪŋɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlin.ɡo/, [ˈliŋɡo]
Verb edit
lingō (present infinitive lingere, perfect active līnxī, supine līnctum); third conjugation
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- Aromanian: alingu, alindziri, lingu
- Friulian: lenzi
- Romanian: linge, lingere
- Sicilian: aḍḍiccari, alliccari, lìngiri
- Sardinian: linghere
References edit
- “lingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lingo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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lingó (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜅᜓ)
- assassination; treacherous killing
- Synonym: pang-aasesino