What does lingua in Italian mean?
What is the meaning of the word lingua in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use lingua in Italian.
The word lingua in Italian means tongue, language, strip, tongue, language, language, original language, improve your language skills, have on the tip of the tongue, talk too much, talk too much, be fast-talking, have on the tip of your tongue, bite your tongue, how else do I have to say it, forked tongue, current terminology, Occitan, langues d'Oïl, tongues of fire, panhandle, underground language, English, literary language, blabbermouth, mother tongue, native language, dead language, original language, written language, forked tongue, foreign language, itching to say something, bite your tongue, show your tongue, not mince words, not speak a word of a language, master a language, to speak the same language, untie the tongue, without mincing words, to hold one's tongue, to hold one's tongue. To learn more, please see the details below.
Meaning of the word lingua
tonguesostantivo femminile (anatomia (organo mobile della bocca) (anatomy) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) La lingua è l'organo che ci permette di sentire il gusto. ⓘQuesta frase non è una traduzione della frase inglese. I placed the pill under my tongue. |
languagesostantivo femminile (idioma) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) La lingua è la principale fonte di comunicazione umana. Language is the primary source of human communication. |
stripsostantivo femminile (cosa a forma di lingua) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) Una sottile lingua di terra collega le due sponde del fiume. A thin strip of land connects the two river banks. |
tonguesostantivo femminile (di animale usata in cucina) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) La lingua bollita è il piatto preferito di mio nonno. Boiled tongue is my grandfather's favorite dish. |
languagesostantivo femminile (linguaggio, modo di esprimersi) (way of speaking) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) La lingua di Dante e del Petrarca è stata scelta come base per l'italiano nazionale. The language of Dante and Petrarch was chosen as the basis for modern Italian. |
languagesostantivo femminile (lingua italiana, non dialetto) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) In Italia la questione della lingua è stata molto accesa. ⓘQuesta frase non è una traduzione della frase inglese. Every language has regional dialects. |
original languagesostantivo femminile (lingua straniera) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) Su quello scaffale trovi i libri in lingua, in particolare quelli in inglese e tedesco. On the shelf you will find books in their original languages, particularly in English and German. |
improve your language skills
(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.") |
have on the tip of the tongue
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talk too much
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talk too much
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be fast-talking
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have on the tip of your tongue
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bite your tongue
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how else do I have to say it
(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.") |
forked tongue
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current terminology
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Occitan
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langues d'Oïl
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tongues of fire
(plural noun: Noun always used in plural form--for example, "jeans," "scissors.") |
panhandlesostantivo femminile (figurato (piccolo appezzamento, terreno) (narrow strip of land) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
underground language
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English
(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) Parlare la lingua inglese è meno facile di quando non si pensi. Speaking English is harder than you would think. |
literary language
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blabbermouth
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mother tongue, native languagesostantivo femminile (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
dead languagesostantivo femminile (figurato (idioma non più parlato) (figurative) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
original languagesostantivo femminile (di film, opera) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
written language
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forked tongue(unreliable, hypocritical person) |
foreign language
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itching to say something(stare per rispondere) (expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.") |
bite your tongue
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show your tongue
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not mince words
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not speak a word of a language
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master a language
(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.") |
to speak the same language(figurative: to share the same views) |
untie the tongue
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without mincing wordslocuzione avverbiale (in modo schietto, diretto) (expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.") Giulia mi ha detto, senza peli sulla lingua, che la mia presenza in casa sua non era gradita. |
to hold one's tongue
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to hold one's tongue
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Italian (italiano) is a Romance language and is spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Italian uses the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, but they still appear in loanwords from Italian. Italian is the second most widely spoken in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 13.4 million EU citizens (3%). Italian is the principal working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An important event that helped to the spread of Italian was Napoleon's conquest and occupation of Italy in the early 19th century. This conquest spurred the unification of Italy several decades later and pushed the language of the Italian language. Italian became a language used not only among secretaries, aristocrats and the Italian courts, but also by the bourgeoisie.