lingual
[ling-gwuh l]
- of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- pertaining to languages.
- Phonetics. articulated with the aid of the tongue, especially the tip of the tongue, as d, n, s, or r.
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- Phonetics. a lingual sound.
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Origin of lingual
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The spines of the lingual plate are uniform, and in number about 10,000.
Like many other lingual affections, this is often unilateral.
This lingual magniloquence is proverbial of American parvenus.
There was neither racial, physical, nor lingual frontier 219 they maintained.
A Prisoner in TurkeyJohn Still
On the incisors they are always to be found on the lingual surface.
DegeneracyEugene S. Talbot
lingual
- anatomy of or relating to the tongue or a part or structure resembling a tongue
- rareof or relating to language or languages
- (in combination)polylingual
- articulated with the tongue
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- a lingual consonant, such as Scots (r)
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Word Origin and History for lingual
adj.
1640s, from Medieval Latin lingualis "of the tongue," from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language," from Old Latin dingua, from PIE *dnghu- "tongue" (cf. Old English tunge, Gothic tuggo "tongue;" see tongue). Altered in Latin probably in part by association with lingere "to lick."
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
lingual
(lĭng′gwəl)- Of or relating to the tongue or any tonguelike part; glossal.
- Next to or toward the tongue.
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