alieniloquium

Latin

Etymology

aliēnus (“alien”) +‎ loquī (“speak”)

• For the meaning of crazy talk, babble, compare to aliēna loquor (“talk strangely, widely”).
• For the meaning of allegory, this is a calque of Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría, “allegory”), from ἄλλος (állos, “other”) +‎ ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “speak”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.li.eː.niˈlo.kʷi.um/, [älʲieːnɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.li.e.niˈlo.kwi.um/, [älieniˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

aliēniloquium n (genitive aliēniloquiī or aliēniloquī); second declension

1. the talk of crazy people, babble
2. (Medieval Latin) allegory

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aliēniloquium	aliēniloquia
Genitive	aliēniloquiī aliēniloquī1	aliēniloquiōrum
Dative	aliēniloquiō	aliēniloquiīs
Accusative	aliēniloquium	aliēniloquia
Ablative	aliēniloquiō	aliēniloquiīs
Vocative	aliēniloquium	aliēniloquia

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

Descendants

• English: alieniloquy

References

• “alieniloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alieniloquium 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)
• alieniloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• alieniloquium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016