magniloquentia

Latin

Etymology

From magniloquus +‎ -entia.

Pronunciation

Noun

magniloquentia f (genitive magniloquentiae); first declension

  1. Verbose or elevated speech, of a grandiose style
    • Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, 13.15.
      itaque ab Homeri magniloquentia confero me ad vera praecepta Euripidou.
      Accordingly from the high style of Homer I transfer myself to the true maxims of Euripides.
  2. Pompous or boastful language
    • Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 44.15.2.
      qua audita re principem legationis, cuius magniloquentiam uix curia paulo ante ceperat, corruisse.
      On hearing this the leader of the legation, whose boastful language the House had a few moments before hardly been able to endure, fell down in a state of collapse.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative magniloquentia magniloquentiae
genitive magniloquentiae magniloquentiārum
dative magniloquentiae magniloquentiīs
accusative magniloquentiam magniloquentiās
ablative magniloquentiā magniloquentiīs
vocative magniloquentia magniloquentiae

References

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