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Latin
Etymology
From alloquor.
Pronunciation
Noun
alloquium n (genitive alloquiī or alloquī); second declension
- a speaking to, addressing, an address (exhortation encouragement, consolation, etc.) (Post-Augustan)
- Synonyms: colloquium, sermo
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “alloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.