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Latin
Etymology
From ēloquor (“I declare, speak plainly”) + -ium (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
ēloquium n (genitive ēloquiī or ēloquī); second declension
- eloquence
- speech, utterance
- diction
- c. 405, Saint Jerome, Epistola 106:
Quis hoc crederet, ut barbara Getarum lingua Hebraicam quaereret veritatem; et dormitantibus, imo contendentibus Graecis, ipsa Germania Spiritus Sancti eloquia scrutaretur!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “eloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.