grandiloquus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From grandis (“great”) + -loquus (“speaking”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ɡranˈdi.lo.kʷus/, [ɡrän̪ˈd̪ɪɫ̪ɔkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɡranˈdi.lo.kwus/, [ɡrän̪ˈd̪iːlokwus]
Adjective[edit]
grandiloquus (feminine grandiloqua, neuter grandiloquum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | grandiloquus | grandiloqua | grandiloquum | grandiloquī | grandiloquae | grandiloqua | |
| Genitive | grandiloquī | grandiloquae | grandiloquī | grandiloquōrum | grandiloquārum | grandiloquōrum | |
| Dative | grandiloquō | grandiloquō | grandiloquīs | ||||
| Accusative | grandiloquum | grandiloquam | grandiloquum | grandiloquōs | grandiloquās | grandiloqua | |
| Ablative | grandiloquō | grandiloquā | grandiloquō | grandiloquīs | |||
| Vocative | grandiloque | grandiloqua | grandiloquum | grandiloquī | grandiloquae | grandiloqua | |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: grandiloquent
- French: grandiloquent
- Portuguese: grandíloquo, grandiloquente
- Spanish: grandílocuo, grandilocuente
References[edit]
- “grandiloquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “grandiloquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- grandiloquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.