grandilocuente
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin grandiloquus, from grandis (“great, full”) + loquor (“speak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɾandiloˈkwente/ [ɡɾãn̪.d̪i.loˈkwẽn̪.t̪e]
Audio (El Salvador): (file) - Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: gran‧di‧lo‧cuen‧te
Adjective
grandilocuente m or f (masculine and feminine plural grandilocuentes)
- grandiloquent
- Synonym: grandílocuo
Derived terms
Further reading
- “grandilocuente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024