Feminine

linguiça

Meaning

  1. (feminine) linguica, longaniza, long pork sausage
  2. (feminine, slang, vulgar) penis

Concepts

Frequency

41k
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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