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Borrowed from Latin loquāx ( “ talkative ” ) + -cious .
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loquacious (comparative more loquacious , superlative most loquacious )
Talkative ; chatty .
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.
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talkative, chatty
Aromanian: limbutsescu , limbar , zburyearcu , lafãzan
Bulgarian: бъбрив (bg) ( bǎbriv )
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)
Greek: ομιλητικός (el) ( omilitikós )
Ancient: λάλος ( lálos ) , πολύλογος ( polúlogos ) , τανύγλωσσος ( tanúglōssos )
Irish: teangach , béalach
Italian: loquace (it)
Japanese: 多弁な (ja) ( たべんな, taben na )
Latin: loquāx (la) , garrulus
Macedonian: збо́рлив ( zbórliv ) , благогла́голив ( blagoglágoliv )
Maori: tātākī , pukukōrero , kōtetetete
Mongolian: ам задгай ( am zadgaj )
Norwegian: plaprende
Polish: gadatliwy (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
Roman: 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