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English
Etymology
From Latin fatiloquus, from fatum (“fate”) + ultimately loqui (“speak”) (modeled on eloquent and other such words).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fatiloquent (not comparable)
- prophetic; speaking of fate.
1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun, Grove Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 37:He paused, adopting a pensive mien which befitted this fatiloquent observation, and I was transfixed by the thick, almost Neanderthal ridges of bone that took the place of eyebrows on his mondial head.
Translations
prophetic, speaking of fate