dulciorelocus

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Laevius, from dulcis (“sweet”) + ōs (“mouth”) + loquor (“speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dul.ki.oːˈre.lo.kus/, [d̪ʊɫ̪kioːˈrɛɫ̪ɔkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dul.t͡ʃi.oˈre.lo.kus/, [d̪ul̠ʲt͡ʃioˈrɛːlokus]

Adjective

dulciōrelocus (feminine dulciōreloca, neuter dulciōrelocum); first/second-declension adjective

1. speaking with a sweet mouth, speaking sweetly
   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.7:

     Cetera enim, quae videbantur nimium poetica, ex prosae orationis usu alieniora praetermisimus; veluti fuit quod de Nestore ait "trisaeclisenex" et "dulciorelocus", item quod de tumidis magnisque fluctibus "fluctibus," inquit, "multigrumis" et flumina gelu concreta "tegmine" esse "onychino" dixit et quae multiplica ludens conposuit, quale illud est, quod vituperones suos "subductisupercilicarptores" appellavit.

     But others we passed over as too poetic and unsuited to use in prose; for example, when he calls Nestor trisaeclisenex, or “an old man who had lived three generations” and dulciorelocus isle, or “that sweet-mouthed speaker,” when he calls great swelling waves multigruma, or “great-hillocked,” and says that rivers congealed by the cold have an onychinum tegimen, or “an onyx covering”; also his many humorous multiple compounds, as when he calls his detractors subductisupercilicarptores, or “carpers with raised eye-brows.”

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dulciōrelocus	dulciōreloca	dulciōrelocum		dulciōrelocī	dulciōrelocae	dulciōreloca
Genitive	dulciōrelocī	dulciōrelocae	dulciōrelocī		dulciōrelocōrum	dulciōrelocārum	dulciōrelocōrum
Dative	dulciōrelocō		dulciōrelocō		dulciōrelocīs
Accusative	dulciōrelocum	dulciōrelocam	dulciōrelocum		dulciōrelocōs	dulciōrelocās	dulciōreloca
Ablative	dulciōrelocō	dulciōrelocā	dulciōrelocō		dulciōrelocīs
Vocative	dulciōreloce	dulciōreloca	dulciōrelocum		dulciōrelocī	dulciōrelocae	dulciōreloca

Synonyms

• (speaking sweetly): dulciloquus

Related terms

Related terms

• dulcacidus
• dulcātor
• dulcēdō
• dulcēscō
• dulcia
• dulciārius
• dulciculus
• dulcifer
• dulcificō
• dulciloquus
• dulcimodus
• dulcinervis
• dulciolum
• dulcis
• dulcisonōrus
• dulcisonus
• dulcitās
• dulciter
• dulcitūdō
• dulcō
• dulcor
• dulcōrō

References

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