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Latin
Etymology
From turpis (“unseemly”) + loquor (“to speak”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
turpiloquium n (genitive turpiloquiī or turpiloquī); second declension
- obscene or immodest speech, profanity
- c. 155 AD — c. 240 AD, Tertullian, De Pudicitia, 17
- Demonstrat et Colossensibus, quae membra mortificent super terram, fornicationem immunditiam libidinem concupiscentiam malam et turpiloquium.
- c. 340 AD — 397 AD, Ambrose, De Fide, 5.10.110
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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