eloquentia
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Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From ēloquēns (“eloquent, articulate”) + -ia.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eː.loˈkʷen.ti.a/, [eːɫ̪ɔˈkʷɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.loˈkwen.t͡si.a/, [eloˈkwɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun[edit]
ēloquentia f (genitive ēloquentiae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ēloquentia | ēloquentiae |
| Genitive | ēloquentiae | ēloquentiārum |
| Dative | ēloquentiae | ēloquentiīs |
| Accusative | ēloquentiam | ēloquentiās |
| Ablative | ēloquentiā | ēloquentiīs |
| Vocative | ēloquentia | ēloquentiae |
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: eloqüència
- English: eloquence
- French: éloquence
- Italian: eloquenza
- Portuguese: eloquência
- Romanian: elocvență
- Sicilian: eluquenza
- Spanish: elocuencia
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
ēloquentia
References[edit]
- “eloquentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eloquentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eloquentia 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)
- eloquentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a distinguished orator: eloquentiae laude florere
- to be considered the foremost orator: eloquentiae principatum tenere
- (ambiguous) to be very eloquent: eloquentia valere
- to be a distinguished orator: eloquentiae laude florere