Feminine
linguiça
Meaning
- (feminine) linguica, longaniza, long pork sausage
- (feminine, slang, vulgar) penis
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/lĩˈɡwi.sɐ/
Etymology
In summary
Etymology tree Latin Lūcānia Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Italic *-kos Latin -cus Latin -icus Latin lūcānicus Latin lūcānica Old Galician-Portuguese linguainça Portuguese linguiça Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese linguainça, from Latin lūcānica, probably through a Vulgar Latin form *lucanicia. Compare Galician longaínza and Spanish longaniza.
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