eloquent
/ˈeləkwənt/EH-luh-kwuhnt
/ˈɛləkwənt/EH-luh-kwuhnt
Meaningspeaking out
Common meaning: speaking fluently and persuasively
- eout
- loquto speak, talkLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1077 · scan
- entadjective ending: being or doing
‘out’ + ‘to speak, talk’ → eloquent
Journey through time
- Latinloquor, locūtus‘to speak, talk’
- Englisheloquent‘speaking fluently and persuasively’ · today
e- also in: emitejecteraseerecterode
loqu also in: colloquialventriloquist
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin loquor ‘to speak, talk’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry loquor, p. 1077 · dictionary scan
Roots
- loquor, locūtus Latin “to speak, talk”
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