# lingo
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈliŋ.ɡoʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ

### Noun

lingo (countable and uncountable, plural lingos or lingoes)
* (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.
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* diner lingo
* kanto lingo

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liˈŋoʔ/ [l̪iˈŋoʔ]
* Hyphenation: li‧ngo

### Noun

lingô (Basahan spelling ᜎᜒᜅᜓ)
* stiff neck
    Grabe an lingo pakamata ko sa higdaan.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

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

#### Derived terms

* cunnilingus
* dēlingō
* linctus

#### Related terms

* lingua (possibly in part)

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “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.

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

lingó (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜅᜓ)
* assassination; treacherous killing
    Synonym: pang-aasesino

#### Derived terms

* manlilingo
* panlilingo

### Anagrams

* ngilo, Liong, ilong