eloquium Latin · revision 33201

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *tlokʷ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈɫɔ.kʷi.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈlɔː.kʷi.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēloquium''' ''n'' (genitive ēloquiī or ēloquī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ēloquor|-ium|t1=to speak out]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|loquor]] to [[itc-pro|*(t)lokʷ-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*tlokʷ-|t=to talk]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) in a taunt addressed to Drances, ''tona eloquio'', “thunder with your eloquence”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short say that the Augustan poets, and prose writers who imitated them, used it for ''ēloquentia'', “eloquence”: Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Velleius and Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also speech or a way of speaking: Mela writes of mute peoples for whom a nod serves as speech.^(OLD 2012) The invective against Sallust falsely ascribed to Cicero has it of a pronouncement by Appius Claudius as censor.^(OLD 2012) In Late Latin it is a declaration or communication.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “word, speech”,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it is a language, spoken words, ''divīnum ēloquium'' “the Scriptures”, and a promise or prophecy.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, “thunder with your eloquence”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of eloquence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of eloquence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – A language;^(Niermeyer 1976) ''divīnum ēloquium'', the Scriptures.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Speech, [[m|en|utterance]]; manner of speaking, [[m|en|diction]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A particular pronouncement.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|eloquence|alt=Eloquence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A declaration, communication.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A language;^(Niermeyer 1976) ''divīnum ēloquium'', the [[m|en|Scripture|alt=Scriptures]]; a promise, [[m|en|prophecy]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēloquor]]

+ * [[ēloquentia]]

+ * [[loquor]]

+ * [[colloquium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}