English

Noun

lingo ‎(plural lingos or lingoes)

1. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group or region; jargon or a dialect.
   • 1846, Reynolds, George W.M., The Mysteries of London volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 327:

     "You see, ma'am, I can't divest myself of my professional lingo," observed Mr. Banks.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ-. Cognate to English lick.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlin.ɡoː/, [ˈlɪŋ.ɡoː]

Verb

lingō ‎(present infinitive lingere, perfect active linxī, supine linctum); third conjugation

1. I lick (up)

Inflection

Derived terms

• cunnilingus
• delingō
• linctus

Descendants

• Aromanian: alingu, alindzire, lingu
• Friulian: lenzi
• Romanian: linge, lingere
• Sicilian: lingiri
• Sardinian: linghere

References

• lingo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lingo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• LINGO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lingo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Tagalog

Noun

lingó

1. assassination; treacherous killing or murder