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langage

langage

French

Alternative forms

Noun

langage m ‎(plural langages)

  1. language: word choice and usage
    Surveille ton langage!
    Watch your language!
  2. (computing) programming language

Related terms

Old French

Noun

langage m ‎(oblique plural langages, nominative singular langages, nominative plural langage)

  1. Alternative form of language
    • circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
      Si savoit parler mains langages
      He knew how to speak many languages

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/

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