Noun: lenguage
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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Et por que el ſabie fablar aquel lenguage. ⁊ leye la ſu letra; paga ſe mucho de buſcar los ſus libros ⁊ de eſtudiar por ellos. (And because he could speak that language and could read in their letters, he strove to seek out their books and study from them.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 1r:]
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Dela piedra aque llaman magnitat en caldeo ⁊ en arauigo. ⁊ en latin magnetes. ⁊ en lenguage caſtellano aymant. (Of the stone they call magnitat in Chaldean and Arabic, and magnetes in Latin, and aymant in the Castilian language.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 1v.:]
Nouns inflected like lenguage
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French language or Old Occitan lenguatge, both from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, derived from Classical Latin lingua. See: Latin Nouns '
lingua'.
Verbs referencing "lenguage"
Spanish Nouns
lenguaje.
Translations