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Spanish
Etymology
From grandilocuente + -encia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ɡɾandiloˈkwenθja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ɡɾandiloˈkwensja/
- (Spain) Rhymes: -enθja
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: gran‧di‧lo‧cuen‧cia
Noun
grandilocuencia f (plural grandilocuencias)
- grandiloquence
2015 August 1, “La ‘band of brothers’ liquida a la flor de la caballería”, in El País:Fue, escribe el gran historiador militar John Keegan en El rostro de la batalla (Turner), donde nos ha dejado el texto canónico sobre el episodio, “una victoria del débil sobre el fuerte, del soldado de a pie sobre el caballero montado, de la resolución sobre la grandilocuencia, del desesperado, acorralado y alejado de su casa sobre el prepotente y engreído”.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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