eloquentia
Latin
Etymology 1
From ēloquēns (“eloquent, articulate”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.ɫɔˈkʷɛn.ti.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.loˈkʷɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]
Noun
ēloquentia f (genitive ēloquentiae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ēloquentia | ēloquentiae |
genitive | ēloquentiae | ēloquentiārum |
dative | ēloquentiae | ēloquentiīs |
accusative | ēloquentiam | ēloquentiās |
ablative | ēloquentiā | ēloquentiīs |
vocative | ēloquentia | ēloquentiae |
Descendants
- Catalan: eloqüència
- English: eloquence
- French: éloquence
- Italian: eloquenza
- Portuguese: eloquência
- Romanian: elocvență
- Sicilian: eluquenza
- Spanish: elocuencia
Etymology 2
Participle
ēloquentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of ēloquēns
References
- “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