eloquium

Latin

Etymology

From ēloquor (“I declare, speak plainly”) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈlo.kʷi.um/, [eːˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈlo.kwi.um/, [eˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

ēloquium n (genitive ēloquiī or ēloquī); second declension

1. eloquence
2. speech, utterance
3. diction
   • c. 405, Saint Jerome, Epistola 106:

     Quis hoc crederet, ut barbara Getarum lingua Hebraicam quaereret veritatem; et dormitantibus, imo contendentibus Graecis, ipsa Germania Spiritus Sancti eloquia scrutaretur!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēloquium	ēloquia
Genitive	ēloquiī ēloquī1	ēloquiōrum
Dative	ēloquiō	ēloquiīs
Accusative	ēloquium	ēloquia
Ablative	ēloquiō	ēloquiīs
Vocative	ēloquium	ēloquia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: eloquio

References

• “eloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• eloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.