Words that come from Latin lingua

400 words across 28 languages descend from Latin lingua — including language, linguistic, bilingual, linguistics, languid, linguistically, linguist, multilingual.

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English (248)

Italian (47)

Esperanto (30)

French (24)

Latin (8)

Ido (8)

Translingual (4)

Catalan (4)

Old Occitan (3)

Friulian (3)

Middle French (2)

Greek (2)

Aromanian (2)

Slovak (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Maltese (1)

Hungarian (1)

Chinook Jargon (1)

Georgian (1)

Gallo (1)

Ladin (1)

Istriot (1)

Yiddish (1)

Japanese (1)

Galician (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Lombard (1)

Neapolitan (1)