eloquor Latin · revision 31161

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *tlokʷ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.ɫɔ.kʷɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.lo.kʷor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēloquor''' (present infinitive ēloquī, perfect active ēlocūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the spelling ''exlocūta''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ex-|t=out]] and [[m|la|loquor|t=to speak]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨loquor⟩ to [[itc-pro|*(t)lokʷe-]] and [[ine-pro|*tlokʷ-|t=to talk]], cognate with [[sga|ad·tluchedar|t=gives thanks]] and [[ru|толк|tr=tolk|t=meaning]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is its first author,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Stichus'' has “what? did you say Epignomus?” and whose ''Menaechmi'' has “I have told you the guests”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to utter or say, to put ideas into words, as Cicero's man who thinks rightly but cannot express it elegantly, and absolutely to speak as an orator.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to reveal in words or divulge, as in Plautus, Ovid and Virgil.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian defines it as bringing out all one has conceived in the mind and conveying it to the hearers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “clarify, elucidate, speak out”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of saying and telling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of expressing thoughts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian defines it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|utter]], say; to express in words;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''(absolute)'' to speak (as an orator).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To reveal, [[m|en|divulge]], tell.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To clarify, explain.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēlocūtilis]]

+ * [[ēlocūtiō]]

+ * [[ēlocūtōrius]]

+ * [[ēlocūtrix]]

+ * [[ēloquentia]]

+ * [[ēloquium]]

+ * [[inēloquēns]]

+ * [[perēloquēns]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[loquor]]

+ * [[ēloquēns]]

+ * [[ēnūntiō]]

+ * [[prōloquor]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein sets it beside ''ēnūntiāre'': both are uttering a thought, but ''ēloquī'' aims at the most perfect expression, so that ''ēlocūtiō'' belongs to rhetoric, while ''ēnūntiāre'' only makes the thought known, so that ''ēnūntiātiō'' belongs to logic.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}