# longa
## English
### Etymology 1

From Australian Kriol langa, from English along. Compare Bislama and Tok Pisin long.

#### Preposition

longa
* (Australian Aboriginal) Belonging to; of, in, at, to. [from 19th c.]
** 1991, Jimmy Chi, Bran Nue Dae, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 137:
    This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia.
** 2000, Queensland Department of Justice, Aboriginal English in the courts: a handbook:He wait longa river.

##### Synonyms

* la
* 'long

### Etymology 2

From Latin longa.

#### Noun

longa (plural longae or longe or longas)
* (music) A musical note equal to two (or occasionally three) breves or whole notes.
    Synonyms: (US, two breves) quadruple whole note, (US, three breves, rare) sextuple whole note

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Anglo, Anglo-, Golan, Angol, anglo-, Logan, anglo, logan, along, NALGO

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From English and French long, from Latin longus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlonɡa/
* Hyphenation: lon‧ga
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -onɡa

### Adjective

longa (accusative singular longan, plural longaj, accusative plural longajn)
* long
** 1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Eliro 2:23.
    Post longa tempo mortis la reĝo de Egiptujo.After a long time the king of Egypt died.
    Antonym: mallonga

#### Derived terms

* longiĝi
* longtempa

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse langa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɔŋka/
* Rhymes: -ɔŋka

### Noun

longa f (genitive singular longu, plural longur)
* ling (fish)
* common ling

#### Derived terms

* blálonga
* vaðanslonga

## Galician
### Adjective

longa
* feminine singular of longo

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto longa.

### Adjective

longa
* long

#### Antonyms

* kurta

#### Derived terms

* longeskar (“to lengthen”, transitive verb)
* longigar (“to lengthen, elongate, prolong”, intransitive verb)

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈl̪ˠɔŋə], [ˈl̪ˠɔŋɡə], [ˈl̪ˠʊŋə], [ˈl̪ˠʊŋɡə]

### Noun

longa f pl
* nominative plural of long
* vocative plural of long
* dative plural of long

## Italian
### Adjective

longa
* feminine singular of longo

### Anagrams

* Anglo, Golan, anglo, anglo-, gnola, lagno, lagnò

## Kituba
### Verb

longa
* to advise

## Latin
### Adjective

longa
* inflection of longus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

longā
* ablative feminine singular of longus

### Noun

longa f (genitive longae); first declension
* (music) a long (British), quadruple whole note (US)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → English: longa

### References

* "longa", 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)
* longa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit (ambiguous) to begin with a long syllable: oriri a longa (De Or. 1. 55. 236) (ambiguous) a man-of-war: navis longa

## Lingala
### Etymology

Probably from Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀ng (“be correct, suit”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lo˩.ⁿɡa˩/

### Verb

-longa (infinitive kolonga)
* suit
* marry, take in marriage

### See also

* lónga

### References

* Ashem Tem Kawata (2004) Dictionnaire lingala-falansé et français-lingala (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN , page 141.

## Neapolitan
### Adjective

longa f sg
* feminine singular of luongo

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

longa f
* definite singular of longe

### Anagrams

* logna

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

longa f (definite singular longa, indefinite plural longer or longor, definite plural longene or longone)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of lange
* definite singular of longe

### Anagrams

* logna, ongla

## Occitan
### Adjective

longa
* feminine singular of long

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From longo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlõ.ɡɐ/
* Hyphenation: lon‧ga

### Adjective

longa
* feminine singular of longo

#### Derived terms

* longa-duração
* longa-metragem

### Noun

longa f (plural longas)
* (grammar) long syllable
* (music) long (a note formerly used in music, twice the length of a breve)

### Noun

longa (Portugal) f or (Brazil) m (plural longas)
* Clipping of longa-metragem.

## Sicilian
### Adjective

longa
* feminine singular of longu

## Spanish
### Noun

longa f (plural longas)
* (music) longa

### Adjective

longa f
* feminine singular of longo

### Further reading

* “longo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10