loquacitas Latin · revision 36502

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la loquor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫɔˈkʷaː.kɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [loˈkʷaː.t͡ʃi.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''loquācitās''' ''f'' (genitive loquācitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|loquāx|-tās|t1=talkative]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) That adjective is formed from [[m|la|loquor|t=to speak]], which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*tlokw-|t=to talk]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it in prose from Cicero on;^(TLL) Cicero has it in his letters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero also uses it of the long-windedness of a historian, Macer, and of a Greek.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy observes that the more carefully secrets are kept, the more easily they leak out through the talkativeness of royal servants, and Quintilian warns against empty wordiness in speakers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of the chatter of magpies.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval Latin it could mean eloquence or the power of speech.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of talkativeness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of royal servants who let secrets out.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of magpies.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian warns against empty wordiness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|talkativeness|alt=Talkativeness]], [[m|en|garrulity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|eloquence|alt=Eloquence]]; the power of speech.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[loquāx]]

+ * [[loquor]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein contrasts it with [[garrulitas]]: garrulity is idle chatter for the pleasure of talking, while ''loquācitās'' is the long-windedness of someone who cannot stop, and so is tedious rather than silly.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}