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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=itc-pro *gārje/o-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɡar.rʊ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɡar.ru.lus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''garrulus''' (feminine garrula, neuter garrulum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|garriō|-ulus|t1=to chatter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan tentatively reconstructs ''garriō'' as [[m|itc-pro|*gārje/o-]], from [[ine-pro|*ǵ(e)h₂r-ie/o-|t=to shout]], and compares [[sga|gairid|t=calls]].^(de Vaan 2008) Etymonline calls the root imitative.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ It is found from Plautus onwards.^(de Vaan 2008) Plautus lists the “bold, garrulous and malicious”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant talkative, chattering, as Varro's “a talkative, sharp man” and Horace's bore.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short note it is classical but not in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was used of birds, as Virgil's chattering swallow and Ovid's crow and partridge, and of a babbling brook in Ovid.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ Döderlein says the ''garrulus'' is tiresome by the quality of what he says, the ''loquax'' by its quantity.^(Döderlein 1874) In medieval Latin ''garrulus'' was also the jay.^(Köbler 2010) English ''garrulous'' was borrowed in the 1610s.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a talkative man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a swallow.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1610s – English ''garrulous'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Talkative, chattering, [[m|en|garrulous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(of birds)'' Chattering, twittering, ''(of water)'' babbling.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|jay]].^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[garrulitās]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[garrio]]
+ * [[en|garrulous]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ Döderlein separates ''garrire'', talking from love of talking, from ''fabulari'', idle talk, and ''blaterare'', foolish talk.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}