languetteEtymologyFrom Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua. By surface analysis, Old French langue + -ette.languette means alternative form of languet.; A tongue-shaped implement. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounAlternative form of languet.; A tongue-shaped implement.“The languette, or plate, is fixed between the two rows of caps, one of its extremities upon the two right-hand caps, the other extending on the left beyond the base of the rectangle.”Alternative form of languet.; A tongue-like organ found on tunicates.“This naturalist believes that the apparatus by the aid of which the act is performed is the series of dorsal languettes or the organs which represent them.”Synonym of lingula.; bony tongue-shaped structure on the mandible“At the root of the languette, and a little below the middle of the interior space which intervenes between the mandibles, is placed the pharynx.”Synonym of lingula.; fleshy tongue-shaped structure“Lastly, the stem of each auditory hair presents a sort of appendage (the languette), to which the nerve of the hair is attached.”A tongue-shaped design used to decorate Ancient Greek pottery.“The foregoing analysis suggests that smaller dimensions and decoration with languettes are characteristic of hydrias in our assemblage, though neither criterion need be applicable in other regions or even in other PG periods at Lefkandi. (41)”A type of decorative hood used on a woman's bodice in the seventeenth century.