lingua
A2#1,114Hear it
noun
- tongue
- language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communi…
- strip, tongueof land
- foreign languages
- the square horn of an anvil
Forms
noun
| singular | lingua |
|---|---|
| plural | lingue |
Used in the library
- La Svizzera ha quattro lingue nazionali.Switzerland has four national languages.A1Lo sportello di Lugano — The Counter in Lugano
- Lugano è una città svizzera di lingua italiana.Lugano is an Italian-speaking Swiss city.A1Lugano, sul lago — Lugano, on the Lake
- In Italia ci sono tanti dialetti e una lingua comune.In Italy there are many dialects and one common language.A1Una lingua, tanti dialetti — One Language, Many Dialects
- Per lei scrive poesie in volgare, la lingua di tutti.For her he writes poems in the vernacular, everyone's language.A1Petrarca sul Campidoglio — Petrarch on the Capitoline Hill
Other ways to say it
Idioms built on the body
- non avere peli sulla linguato speak one's mindLiterally to have no hairs on the tongue.