veriloquium

Latin

Etymology

From vērus +‎ loquor +‎ -ium, coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯eː.riˈlo.kʷi.um/, [u̯eːrɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.riˈlo.kwi.um/, [veriˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

vēriloquium n (genitive vēriloquiī or vēriloquī); second declension

1. etymology

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vēriloquium	vēriloquia
Genitive	vēriloquiī vēriloquī1	vēriloquiōrum
Dative	vēriloquiō	vēriloquiīs
Accusative	vēriloquium	vēriloquia
Ablative	vēriloquiō	vēriloquiīs
Vocative	vēriloquium	vēriloquia

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

References

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