loquacious

English

WOTD – 11 January 2007

Etymology

From Latin loquāx, loquācis (“talkative”) +‎ -ous or from loquacity +‎ -ous, ultimately from Latin loquor +‎ -acious.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkweɪʃəs/
• (US) enPR: lō-kwāʹshəs, IPA^(key): /loʊˈkweɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

loquacious (comparative more loquacious, superlative most loquacious)

1. Talkative; chatty.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:talkative

   Antonyms: laconic, quiet, reserved, taciturn

   • 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer:

     On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious, or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.

   • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

     " […] and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […] "

Derived terms

• loquaciously
• loquaciousness
• scribaceous
• scribacious
• unloquacious

Related terms

• locution
• loquacity

Translations

talkative, chatty

• Aromanian: limbutsescu, limbar, zburyearcu, lafãzan
• Bulgarian: бъбрив (bg) (băbriv)
• Catalan: loquaç (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貧嘴 / 贫嘴 (zh) (pínzuǐ), 多嘴 (zh) (duōzuǐ)

• Czech: povídavý
• Dutch: praatziek (nl), praatgraag (nl)
• Finnish: puhelias (fi), suulas (fi)
• French: loquace (fr)
• German: gesprächig (de), redselig (de), geschwätzig (de), schwatzhaft (de), mitteilsam (de)
• Greek: ομιλητικός (el) (omilitikós)

  Ancient Greek: λάλος (lálos), πολύλογος (polúlogos), τανύγλωσσος (tanúglōssos)

• Irish: teangach, béalach, cabach
• Italian: loquace (it)
• Japanese: 多弁な (ja) (たべんな, taben na)
• Latin: loquāx (la), garrulus
• Macedonian: збо́рлив (zbórliv), благогла́голив (blagoglágoliv)
• Māori: tātākī, pukukōrero, kōtetetete
• Mongolian: ам задгай (am zadgaj)
• Norwegian: plaprende
• Polish: gadatliwy (pl), wielomówny (pl)
• Portuguese: loquaz (pt)
• Romanian: vorbăreț (ro), limbut (ro), flecar (ro), gureș (ro), guraliv (ro)
• Russian: словоохо́тливый (ru) (slovooxótlivyj), разгово́рчивый (ru) (razgovórčivyj), говорли́вый (ru) (govorlívyj), болтли́вый (ru) (boltlívyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: beulach, bruithneach, labhairteach, gobach. cabach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: причљив

  Latin: pričljiv (sh)

• Spanish: locuaz (es)
• Swedish: pratsam (sv)
• Turkish: konuşgan n, geveze (tr)
• Ukrainian: балакучий (uk) m (balakučyj), говіркий m (hovirkyj)
• Volapük: spikotälik (vo), spikodiälik

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “loquacious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• aquicolous