Etymograph

English

Lingua Ignota

Lingua Ignota comes from Latin lingua ignōtā ‘unknown language’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElingua ignōtā‘unknown language’
  2. EnglishtodayLingua Ignota

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElingua ignōtā‘unknown language’
  2. EnglishtodayLingua Ignota

Every English word from Latin lingua ignōtā

Today it means

name A Latin-influenced mystical 12th-century constructed language recorded by St. Hildegard of Bingen, and apparently the first entirely artificial language.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin lingua ignōtā / Lingua Ignota

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