risiloquium

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Latin

Etymology

From rīsus +‎ loquor +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /riː.siˈlo.kʷi.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ri.siˈlo.kwi.um/,

Noun

rīsiloquium n (genitive rīsiloquiī or rīsiloquī); second declension

a tattling and laughing at the same time

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rīsiloquium	rīsiloquia
genitive	rīsiloquiī rīsiloquī¹	rīsiloquiōrum
dative	rīsiloquiō	rīsiloquiīs
accusative	rīsiloquium	rīsiloquia
ablative	rīsiloquiō	rīsiloquiīs
vocative	rīsiloquium	rīsiloquia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

“risiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
risiloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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