dulciorelocus

Latin edit

Coined by Laevius, from dulcis (“sweet”) + ōs (“mouth”) + loquor (“speak”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /dul.ki.oːˈre.lo.kus/, [d̪ʊɫ̪kioːˈrɛɫ̪ɔkʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dul.t͡ʃi.oˈre.lo.kus/, [d̪ul̠ʲt͡ʃioˈrɛːlokus]

dulciōrelocus (feminine dulciōreloca, neuter dulciōrelocum); first/second-declension adjective

speaking with a sweet mouth, speaking sweetly
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.7:
  Cetera enim, quae videbantur nimium poetica, ex prosae orationis usu alieniora praetermisimus; veluti fuit quod de Nestore ait "trisaeclisenex" et "dulciorelocus", item quod de tumidis magnisque fluctibus "fluctibus," inquit, "multigrumis" et flumina gelu concreta "tegmine" esse "onychino" dixit et quae multiplica ludens conposuit, quale illud est, quod vituperones suos "subductisupercilicarptores" appellavit.
  But others we passed over as too poetic and unsuited to use in prose; for example, when he calls Nestor trisaeclisenex, or “an old man who had lived three generations” and dulciorelocus isle, or “that sweet-mouthed speaker,” when he calls great swelling waves multigruma, or “great-hillocked,” and says that rivers congealed by the cold have an onychinum tegimen, or “an onyx covering”; also his many humorous multiple compounds, as when he calls his detractors subductisupercilicarptores, or “carpers with raised eye-brows.”

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	dulciōrelocus	dulciōreloca	dulciōrelocum	dulciōrelocī	dulciōrelocae	dulciōreloca
Genitive	dulciōrelocī	dulciōrelocae	dulciōrelocī	dulciōrelocōrum	dulciōrelocārum	dulciōrelocōrum
Dative	dulciōrelocō	dulciōrelocae	dulciōrelocō	dulciōrelocīs
Accusative	dulciōrelocum	dulciōrelocam	dulciōrelocum	dulciōrelocōs	dulciōrelocās	dulciōreloca
Ablative	dulciōrelocō	dulciōrelocā	dulciōrelocō	dulciōrelocīs
Vocative	dulciōreloce	dulciōreloca	dulciōrelocum	dulciōrelocī	dulciōrelocae	dulciōreloca

Related terms

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