loquela

Learned borrowing from Latin loquēla.

• IPA^(key): /loˈkwɛ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: lo‧què‧la

loquela f (plural loquele)

1. loquacity
2. language

• loquella

From loquor (“speak”) +‎ -ēla. The form in -ell- is due to reanalysis as a diminutive.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɔˈkʷeː.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [loˈkʷɛː.la]

loquēla f (genitive loquēlae); first declension

1. speech, utterance, language, discourse

First-declension noun.

• “loquela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “loquela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "loquela", 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)
• loquela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.