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Latin
Etymology
From aliēnus (“alien”) + loquī (“speak”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
aliēniloquium n (genitive aliēniloquiī or aliēniloquī); second declension
- the talk of crazy people, babble
- (Medieval Latin) allegory
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “alieniloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alieniloquium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- alieniloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- alieniloquium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016