eloquentia

Latin

Etymology 1

From ēloquēns (eloquent, articulate) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

Noun

ēloquentia f (genitive ēloquentiae); first declension

  1. eloquence
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

  1. 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