lingua

Other forms of lingua

plural

linguae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lingua

What does lingua mean?

lingua means "a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity".

How many syllables are in lingua?

lingua has 2 syllables: lin-gua. The stress falls on "lin". In IPA it is /ˈlɪŋɡwə/.

What is another word for lingua?

Close synonyms include tongue, glossa, clapper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lingua a common word?

lingua is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.