lingo

From Latin lingua (“language”) + -o (diminutive suffix).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈliŋ.ɡoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ

lingo (countable and uncountable, plural lingos or lingoes)

1. (informal) Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.
   • 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 47:

     [...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.

   • 1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 327:

     "You see, ma'am, I can't divest myself of my professional lingo," observed Mr. Banks.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.

2. (Australian Aboriginal) An Aboriginal language.
   • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 105:

     Granny Ava was the link: the last heathen of the family to speak the lingo fluently, before the Church waltzed in and jammed the Lord's Prayer in Granny Ruth's twelve-year-old mouth instead.

• log in, Login, longi, login, long i, Olgin, Ligon, ligno-, log-in, Loing

• IPA^(key): /liˈŋoʔ/ [l̪iˈŋoʔ]
• Hyphenation: li‧ngo

lingô (Basahan spelling ᜎᜒᜅᜓ)

1. stiff neck

   Grabe an lingo pakamata ko sa higdaan.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

From Proto-Italic *lingō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ-. Cognate with Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem) and English lick.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlin.ɡoː/, [ˈlʲɪŋɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlin.ɡo/, [ˈliŋɡo]

lingō (present infinitive lingere, perfect active līnxī, supine līnctum); third conjugation

1. to lick (up)

   Synonym: lambō

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata III.96:

     Lingis, non futuis meam puellam.

     You lick, but do not fuck my girl.

• cunnilingus
• dēlingō
• linctus

• lingua (possibly in part)

• Aromanian: alingu, alindziri, lingu
• Friulian: lenzi
• Romanian: linge, lingere
• Sicilian: aḍḍiccari, alliccari, lìngiri
• Sardinian: linghere

• “lingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lingo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /liˈŋo/ [lɪˈŋo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: li‧ngo

lingó (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜅᜓ)

1. assassination; treacherous killing

   Synonym: pang-aasesino

• ngilo, Liong, ilong