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linguae

linguae is a Latin form of lingua, meaning “tongue; language”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 254 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.47.4: … t humanitate adulescentem, cuius pater a C. Valerio Flacco civitate donatus erat, et propter fidem et propter linguae Gallicae scientiam, qua multa iam Ariovistus longinqua consuetudine utebatur, et quod in eo peccandi Germanis …

Phaedrus, Fabulae appendix.26.12: Quod te celavi? Linguae prorsus non nego

Plautus, Casina 3.5.653b: Timór praepedít dicta línguae.

All forms of lingua (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.