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Latin
Etymology 1
From ēloquēns (“eloquent, articulate”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
ēloquentia f (genitive ēloquentiae); first declension
- eloquence
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Participle
ēloquentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of ēloquēns
References
- “eloquentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eloquentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eloquentia 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)
- eloquentia 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 distinguished orator: eloquentiae laude florere
- to be considered the foremost orator: eloquentiae principatum tenere
- (ambiguous) to be very eloquent: eloquentia valere