- lingo
- lingo "foreign speech," 1650s, possibly a corrupt form of LINGUA FRANCA (Cf. lingua franca) (q.v.), or from Prov. lingo "language, tongue," from O.Prov. lenga, from L. lingua "tongue" (see LINGUAL (Cf. lingual)).
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Lingo — may refer to:* LINGO Modeling Language * Lingo (programming language), one of several unrelated programming languages * Lingo (Dutch game show) * Lingo (Portuguese game show) * Lingo (Quebec game show) * Lingo (US game show) * Lingo (UK game… … Wikipedia
Lingo — es el lenguaje de programación que lleva incorporado Macromedia Director, un programa de autoría. Permite integrar con relativa facilidad texto, imágenes, sonidos y video digital, siendo una alternativa a lenguajes más tradicionales, como el… … Wikipedia Español
lingo — [liŋ′gō] n. pl. lingoes [Prov lingo, lengo < L lingua, tongue: see LANGUAGE] Informal language; esp., a dialect, jargon, or special vocabulary that one is not familiar with: a humorous or disparaging term [the lingo of the doctors] SYN.… … English World dictionary
Lingo — Lin go (l[i^][ng] g[ o]), n. [L. lingua tongue, language. See {Lingual}.] Language; speech; dialect. [Slang] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Lingo — Lingo, (2. Aug.), ein Bischof von Langres (Lingonum Civitas) in Frankreich, wie Ferrarius in seinem Generalkatalog nach dem Verzeichnisse der Heiligen dieser Kirche berichtet. Die Bollandisten führen ihn unter den Prätermissen auf. (I. 107) … Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon
lingo — index phraseology, speech Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Lingo — Lingo, Macromind Director … Universal-Lexikon
lingo — *dialect, vernacular, patois, jargon, cant, argot, slang … New Dictionary of Synonyms
lingo — a colloquial word for a language or the special vocabulary of a language, has the plural form lingos … Modern English usage
lingo — [n] dialect spoken by a group argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, patois, patter, slang, speech, talk, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary; concept 276 Ant. standard … New thesaurus
