linguagium

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Romance descendant (e.g. Old French language) of Vulgar Latin *linguāticum. By surface analysis, lingua +‎ -āgium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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linguāgium n (genitive linguāgiī or linguāgī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

  1. a language

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

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  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “linguagium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 614