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Latin
Etymology
From an onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European *bal- (“to blabber, talk”); see balbus (“stammering”) for more.
Verb
blatiō (present infinitive blatīre); fourth conjugation, no perfect or supine stems
- (very rare) to speak foolishly, babble, prate
Conjugation
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “blatiō, -īre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 73
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “blatiō, -īs, -īre”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 72
Further reading
- blatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “blatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press