facundia

Latin

Etymology

fācundus (“eloquent”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faːˈkun.di.a/, [fäːˈkʊn̪d̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈkun.di.a/, [fäˈkun̪d̪iä]

Noun

fācundia f (genitive fācundiae); first declension

1. eloquence
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 4.7:

     non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te restituet pietas

     Not birth, nor eloquence, nor worth, shall reincarnate you, Torquatus

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fācundia	fācundiae
Genitive	fācundiae	fācundiārum
Dative	fācundiae	fācundiīs
Accusative	fācundiam	fācundiās
Ablative	fācundiā	fācundiīs
Vocative	fācundia	fācundiae

Descendants

• French: faconde
• Spanish: facundia

References

• “facundia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facundia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facundia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• facundia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fācundia.

Noun

facundia f (plural facundias)

1. eloquence; gift of the gab

   Synonym: elocuencia

Further reading

• “facundia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014