multiloquium

Latin

Etymology

From multus +‎ loquor +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mʊɫ.tɪˈɫɔ.kʷi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mul.tiˈlɔː.kʷi.um]

Noun

multiloquium n (genitive multiloquiī or multiloquī); second declension

1. loquaciousness

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	multiloquium	multiloquia
genitive	multiloquiī multiloquī1	multiloquiōrum
dative	multiloquiō	multiloquiīs
accusative	multiloquium	multiloquia
ablative	multiloquiō	multiloquiīs
vocative	multiloquium	multiloquia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: multiloquy
• Italian: multiloquio

References

• “multiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “multiloquium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• multiloquium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016