Words that come from Latin lingua

400 words across 39 languages descend from Latin lingua — including language, linguistic, linguistics, linguistically, linguist, multilingual, lingua, lingual.

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English (231)

Italian (38)

Esperanto (28)

French (25)

Latin (9)

Spanish (8)

Romansch (7)

Translingual (4)

Old Occitan (3)

Catalan (3)

Aromanian (3)

Friulian (3)

Galician (3)

Romanian (3)

Portuguese (3)

Middle French (2)

Ladino (2)

Old French (2)

German (2)

Norman (2)

Slovak (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Hebrew (1)

Maltese (1)

Hungarian (1)

Chinook Jargon (1)

Georgian (1)

Gallo (1)

Ladin (1)

Istriot (1)

Yiddish (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Lombard (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Sicilian (1)

Asturian (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Haitian Creole (1)