eloquens

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder.

Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr

Latin loquor

Latin ēloquor

Latin eloquens

Present active participle of ēloquor (“to speak plainly, declare”).

Participle

ēloquēns (genitive ēloquentis, superlative ēloquentissimus); third-declension one-termination participle

1. eloquent, articulate

   Synonym: cōpiōsus

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	ēloquēns			ēloquentēs	ēloquentia
genitive	ēloquentis			ēloquentium
dative	ēloquentī			ēloquentibus
accusative	ēloquentem	ēloquēns		ēloquentēs ēloquentīs	ēloquentia
ablative	ēloquente ēloquentī1			ēloquentibus
vocative	ēloquēns			ēloquentēs	ēloquentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “eloquens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eloquens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “eloquens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a capable, finished speaker: eloquentem esse (De Or. 1. 21. 94)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very eloquent: eloquentia valere
    
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.