stultiloquentia

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Latin

Etymology

Coined by Plautus, from stultus +‎ loquēns +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /stul.ti.loˈkʷen.ti.a/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /stul.ti.loˈkwen.t͡si.a/,

Noun

stultiloquentia f (genitive stultiloquentiae); first declension

(hapax) stupid or silly language
- c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 222:
  occlusioremque habeant stultiloquentiam.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stultiloquentia	stultiloquentiae
genitive	stultiloquentiae	stultiloquentiārum
dative	stultiloquentiae	stultiloquentiīs
accusative	stultiloquentiam	stultiloquentiās
ablative	stultiloquentiā	stultiloquentiīs
vocative	stultiloquentia	stultiloquentiae

References

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

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