The story
- Latin · borrowed fromligula“strap, spoon”
- English todayligula
From Latin ligula (“strap, spoon”), a variant of lingula (“small tongue-shaped object”), itself partly derived from lingō (“lick”) and partly a diminutive of lingua (“tongue”).
Words from the same roots
Latinligula all →
ligule
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.