ventriloquus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin venter

Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder.

Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr

Latin loquor

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *-os

Archaic Latin -os

Latin -us

Latin -loquus

Latin ventriloquus

From venter (“belly”) + -loquus (“speaking”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛnˈtrɪ.ɫɔ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [venˈtriː.lo.kʷus]

Noun

ventriloquus m (genitive ventriloquī); second declension

1. ventriloquist

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ventriloquus	ventriloquī
genitive	ventriloquī	ventriloquōrum
dative	ventriloquō	ventriloquīs
accusative	ventriloquum	ventriloquōs
ablative	ventriloquō	ventriloquīs
vocative	ventriloque	ventriloquī

Descendants

• → English: ventriloquous

References

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