risiloquium

Latin

Etymology

From rīsus +‎ loquor +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /riː.siˈlo.kʷi.um/, [riːs̠ɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ri.siˈlo.kwi.um/, [ris̬iˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

rīsiloquium n (genitive rīsiloquiī or rīsiloquī); second declension

1. a tattling and laughing at the same time

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rīsiloquium	rīsiloquia
genitive	rīsiloquiī rīsiloquī1	rīsiloquiōrum
dative	rīsiloquiō	rīsiloquiīs
accusative	rīsiloquium	rīsiloquia
ablative	rīsiloquiō	rīsiloquiīs
vocative	rīsiloquium	rīsiloquia

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

References

• “risiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “risiloquium”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.