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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of ēloquor (“speak plainly, declare”).
Participle
ēloquēns (genitive ēloquentis, superlative ēloquentissimus); third-declension one-termination participle
- eloquent, articulate
- Synonym: cōpiōsus
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- “eloquens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eloquens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eloquens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a capable, finished speaker: eloquentem esse (De Or. 1. 21. 94)
- (ambiguous) to be very eloquent: eloquentia valere
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.