Etymology

languette

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Today it means: A tongue-shaped implement. Full definition →

Old French languete ← Latin lingua
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  1. Latin · derived fromlingua
  2. Old French · derived fromlanguete
  3. English todaylanguette

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua. By surface analysis, Old French langue + -ette.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchlanguete all →

languet

Latinlingua all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.