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lingua franca

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

lingua franca orig. mixed jargon based on Italian, used in the Levant. XVII. — It., ‘Frankish tongue’; see FRANK.

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