Lingoa Geral

proper noun

Old Tupi (Tupian language used as a lingua franca in early colonial Brasil).

OriginPortuguese língua geral →
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper noun
  1. Old Tupi (Tupian language used as a lingua franca in early colonial Brasil).

    One useful result of his former experiences was that he could talk fluently in the Lingoa Geral, which is the peculiar talk, one-third Portuguese and two-thirds Indian, which is current all over Brazil.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
classical tupiold tupi

Origin

  1. Portugueselíngua geral“literally, general language”
  2. EnglishLingoa Geral

From Portuguese língua geral (“literally, general language”).

More words from Portuguese

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Lingoa Geral. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lingoa%20Geral

MLA

“Lingoa Geral.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lingoa%20Geral. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lingoa Geral,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lingoa%20Geral.

Source: Lingoa Geral on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.