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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ng?gw?j, IPA^(key): /?læ??w?d??/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [?le???w?d??]
• Hyphenation: lan?guage

Etymology 1

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s (“tongue, speech, language”). Displaced native Old English ?eþ?ode.

Noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

1. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
   • 1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 ?ISBN, page 240:

     Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:

     And ‘blubbing’... Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

4. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
   • 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor ?ISBN:

     A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
   • 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:

     A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings […] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.

   • 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:

     Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.

6. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
   • 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages ?ISBN, page 94

     In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

7. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Hope

     Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]

8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

9. (uncountable) Profanity.

Synonyms

• (form of communication): see Thesaurus:language
• (vocabulary of a particular field): see Thesaurus:jargon
• (computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language
• (particular words used): see Thesaurus:wording

Hypernyms

• medium

Hyponyms

• See Category:en:Languages

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)

1. (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.

   • Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

See also

• bilingual
• lexis
• linguistics
• multilingual
• term
• trilingual
• word

Etymology 2

Alteration of languet.

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

References

• language at OneLook Dictionary Search
• language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• language in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. Archaic spelling of langage.

Middle English

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. Alternative form of langage

Middle French

Alternative forms

• langage
• langaige
• languaige

Etymology

From Old French language.

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue

Descendants

• French: langage
  • Haitian Creole: langaj
    • ? English: langaj
  • Mauritian Creole: langaz

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Classical Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan??ad???/

Noun

language f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue, lingue

Descendants

• ? Middle English: language
  • English: language
• Middle French: language
  • French: langage
    • Haitian Creole: langaj
      • ? English: langaj
    • Mauritian Creole: langaz
• ? Old Spanish: lenguage

Asturian

Verb

venda

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of vender

Catalan

Noun

venda f (plural vendes)

1. sale (instance of selling something)

Related terms

• vendre

Estonian

Noun

venda

1. partitive singular of vend
2. illative singular of vend

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse venda, from Proto-Germanic *wandijan? (“to turn”).

Verb

venda (third person singular past indicative vendi, third person plural past indicative vent, supine vent)

1. to turn

Conjugation

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish vända (“to turn”).

Noun

venda

1. (nautical slang) A tack (sailing maneuver).

Declension

Synonyms

• vastakäännös

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese venda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin v?ndita, from v?nd?, or a back-formation from vender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?benda?/

Noun

venda f (plural vendas)

1. (historical) roadside inn

   Synonym: pousada

2. sale

Derived terms

• Venda
• Venda Nova
• Vendas
• Vendas da Barreira

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Proto-Germanic *binda; see also Old High German binta and German Binde.

Noun

venda f (plural vendas)

1. bandage
2. blindfold (covering for the eyes)

Related terms

• vendar

References

• “venda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “venda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “venda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “venda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “venda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse venda, from Proto-Germanic *wandijan? (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?nta/
• Rhymes: -?nta

Verb

venda (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative venti, supine vent)

1. (chiefly nautical) to turn

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

venda

1. inflection of vendere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• vende

Etymology

From Old Norse venda. Akin to English wend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²??nd?/

Verb

venda (present tense vender, past tense vende, past participle vendt, present participle vendande, imperative vend)

1. to turn

Synonyms

• snu

References

• “venda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

venda f (plural vendas)

1. sale (instance of selling something)

Related terms

• vendre

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?v?.d?/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese venda (“sale”), from vender (“to sell”), from Latin vendo (“I sell”).

Noun

venda f (plural vendas)

1. sale (instance of selling something)

   Antonym: compra

2. general store (store which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing)

   Synonyms: armazém, quitanda

Derived terms

• venda a descoberta
• venda casada
• venda condicionada

Related terms

• vendedor
• vender
• vendido
• vendível

Verb

venda

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vender
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vender
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vender
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vender

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese venda, from Proto-Germanic *binda; see also Old High German binta and German Binde.

Noun

venda f (plural vendas)

2. blindfold (covering for the eyes)

Related terms

• vendação
• vendado
• vendar

Verb

venda

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of vendar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of vendar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?benda/, [?b?n?.d?a]
• Rhymes: -enda

Etymology 1

From binda, a Germanic language word (compare English bind, band).

Noun

venda f (plural vendas)

1. bandage
2. blindfold

Derived terms

• caérsele la venda de los ojos
• poner una venda en los ojos
• vendar

Related terms

• vendaje

Etymology 2

Noun

venda f (plural vendas, masculine vendo, masculine plural vendos)

1. female equivalent of vendo; female Wend

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

venda

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of vendar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of vendar.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

venda

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of vender.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of vender.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of vender.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of vender.

Further reading

• “venda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.