langage
Appearance
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- language (archaic or misspelling)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”) (whence langue). By surface analysis, langue + -age.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]langage m (plural langages)
- language: word choice and usage
- Surveille ton langage ! ― Watch your language!
- 2014, Jean-Claude Bernardon, Résolution de conflits:
- Votre langage doit vous permettre de maintenir une bonne distance de sécurité, être un peu plus poli et détaché que nécessaire est un avantage.
- Your language has to allow you to maintain a good safe distance, to be a little more polite and detached than necessary is an advantage.
- 2018 June 22, “Mort de Koko, le gorille qui parlait le langage des signes”, in Le Point[1]:
- Koko, une gorille devenue mondialement célèbre pour sa maîtrise du langage des signes et vue par beaucoup comme un modèle d’empathie avec les humains, est morte mercredi à 46 ans en Californie, a annoncé la Gorilla Foundation qui suivait l’animal.
- Koko, a gorilla famous worldwide for her mastery of sign language and seen by many as a model of empathy with humans, died on Wednesday aged 46 years in California, the Gorilla Foundation, which followed the animal, has announced.
- (computing) programming language
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Haitian Creole: langaj
- → English: langaj
- Mauritian Creole: langaz
- Louisiana Creole: langaj
- → Romanian: limbaj (partial calque)
Further reading
[edit]- “langage” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “langage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French language; from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]langage (plural langages)
- language, tongue, speech
- dialect, idiom, local speech
- discussion, talk
- country (with a shared language)
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: language
References
[edit]- “langāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
Old French
[edit]Noun
[edit]langage oblique singular, m (oblique plural langages, nominative singular langages, nominative plural langage)
- Alternative form of language
- c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Si savoit parler mains langages
- He knew how to speak many languages
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- French terms suffixed with -age
- French 2-syllable words
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French terms with usage examples
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- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
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- Middle English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
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- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
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