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Latin
Etymology
From longus (“long”) + loquor (“say, speak, tell, talk”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
longiloquium n (genitive longiloquiī or longiloquī); second declension
- A long speech.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
References
- “longiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- longiloquium 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)
- longiloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- longiloquium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016