-loquus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From loquor (“to speak”) + -us (adjective-forming suffix).
Suffix
[edit]-loquus (feminine -loqua, neuter -loquum, comparative -loquentior, superlative -loquentissimus); first/second-declension suffix
- Forms adjectives that specify the manner of one's speech
- vānus (“vain, idle”) > vāniloquus (“talking idly, lying, boastful”)
- malus (“evil, bad”) > maliloquus (“evil-speaking, slanderous”)
- venter (“belly”) > ventriloquus (“speaking with the belly, a ventriloquist”)
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -loquus | -loqua | -loquum | -loquī | -loquae | -loqua | |
| genitive | -loquī | -loquae | -loquī | -loquōrum | -loquārum | -loquōrum | |
| dative | -loquō | -loquae | -loquō | -loquīs | |||
| accusative | -loquum | -loquam | -loquum | -loquōs | -loquās | -loqua | |
| ablative | -loquō | -loquā | -loquō | -loquīs | |||
| vocative | -loque | -loqua | -loquum | -loquī | -loquae | -loqua | |