langage
French
Alternative forms
- language (archaic or misspelling)
Etymology
From Middle French language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum (corresponding to langue + -age), from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɑ̃.ɡaʒ/
audio (file)
Noun
langage m (plural langages)
- language: word choice and usage
- Surveille ton langage ! ― Watch your language!
- 2014, Jean-Claude Bernardon, Résolution de conflits
- Votre langage doit vous permettre de maintenir une bonne distance de sécurité, être un peu plus poli et détaché que nécessaire est un avantage.
- Your language has to allow you to maintain a good safe distance, to be a little more polite and detached than necessary is an advantage.
- 2018 June 22, “Mort de Koko, le gorille qui parlait le langage des signes”, in Le Point:
- Koko, une gorille devenue mondialement célèbre pour sa maîtrise du langage des signes et vue par beaucoup comme un modèle d'empathie avec les humains, est morte mercredi à 46 ans en Californie, a annoncé la Gorilla Foundation qui suivait l'animal.
- Koko, a gorilla famous worldwide for her mastery of sign language and seen by many as a model of empathy with humans, died on Wednesday aged 46 years in California, the Gorilla Foundation, which followed the animal, has announced.
- (computing) programming language
Derived terms
- abus de langage
- langage d'assemblage
- langage de balisage
- langage de programmation
- langage machine
- langagier
Related terms
- see langue
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: langaj
- → English: langaj
- Mauritian Creole: langaz
- → Romanian: limbaj (partial calque)
Further reading
- “langage” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “langage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Paronyms
- élagage
- largage
- Longages
Middle English
Alternative forms
- language, langag, langwache
Etymology
From Old French language; from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lanˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /lanˈɡwaːd͡ʒ(ə)/
Noun
langage (plural langages)
- language, tongue, speech
- dialect, idiom, local speech
- discussion, talk
- country (with a shared language)
Synonyms
- speche
- tung
- thede
- leden, lede
Descendants
- English: language
References
- “langāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
Old French
Noun
langage m (oblique plural langages, nominative singular langages, nominative plural langage)
- Alternative form of language
- circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Si savoit parler mains langages
- He knew how to speak many languages
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