linge

From Middle English lengen (“to linger”), from Old English lengan (“to make long, lengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *langijaną (“to make long”). Cognate with Scots ling (“to lengthen, prolong, delay; tarry, continue”). More at linger.

• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

linge (third-person singular simple present linges, present participle linging, simple past and past participle linged)

1. (intransitive, UK, dialectal, obsolete) To work hard.

• lingy

• Elgin, Elgin., Eling, Ingle, Nigel, ingle

From a substantivation of Old French linge, from Latin līneus.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃ʒ/

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linge m (plural linges)

1. linen
2. cloth
3. laundry
4. (Switzerland) towel
5. (North America, invariable) clothing

• blanc comme un linge
• épingle à linge
• sèche-linge (“tumble drier”)
• corde à linge (“clothesline”)
• laver son linge sale en public
• linge de corps
• lingerie (“linen room, lingerie”)
• pince à linge

• ligne

• “linge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ligne, ligné

linge

1. present subjunctive analytic of ling

linge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lingō

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linge m (plural linges)

1. laundry

Inherited from Latin lingere, present active infinitive of lingō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlindʒe]

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a linge (third-person singular present linge, past participle lins) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to lick

• lingări
• lingău
• linguși
• lingere
• prelinge